Definition for SI-PHON-O-BRAN'CHI-ATE

SI-PHON-O-BRAN'CHI-ATE, a.

In malacology, provided with a siphon or tube, by which the water to be inhaled is carried to the gills, as in the siphonobranchiata. The moluscans which have no siphons are called asiphonobranchiate.

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