debranchiate

== English == === Etymology === From de- +‎ branchiate. === Adjective === debranchiate (not comparable) (zoology) Lacking branchiae. 1934, Natural History Report: Zoology VII, British Museum, page 144: One was wholly debranchiate, the other had but one gill plume remaining. 1988, Jost Wiedmann and Jürgen Kullmann (editors), Cephalopods Present and Past: Otto Heinrich Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985 (2nd International Cephalopod Symposium), E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 676: Sectioned buccal masses of several debranchiate cephalopods prepared by Mrs. von Boletzky were studied with the help of S. von Boletzky at the Laboratoire Arago in Banyuls-sur-Mer. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:debranchiate. ==== Synonyms ==== abranchial, abranchiate, abranchious