English English Dictionary

of Branch

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

The state of being made up of branchiate segments.

One of the Branchiopoda.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

Branchiostegal.

The lancelet. See Amphioxus.

A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

A little branch; a twig.

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.

To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.

An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.

To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).

Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.