BPage 250
- English Word Branch Definition Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
- English Word Branch Definition To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
- English Word Branch Definition To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
- English Word Branch Definition To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
- English Word Branch Definition To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
- English Word Branch pilot Definition A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.
- English Word Branched Definition of Branch
- English Word Brancher Definition That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
- English Word Brancher Definition A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.
- English Word Branchery Definition A system of branches.
- English Word Branches Definition of Branch
- English Word Branchia Definition A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.
- English Word Branchiae Definition of Branchia
- English Word Branchial Definition Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.
- English Word Branchiate Definition Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.
- English Word Branchiferous Definition Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.
- English Word Branchiness Definition Fullness of branches.
- English Word Branching Definition of Branch
- English Word Branching Definition Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
- English Word Branching Definition The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.
- English Word Branchiogastropoda Definition Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
- English Word Branchiomerism Definition The state of being made up of branchiate segments.
- English Word Branchiopod Definition One of the Branchiopoda.
- English Word Branchiopoda Definition 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.
- English Word Branchiostegal Definition Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
- English Word Branchiostegal Definition A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.
- English Word Branchiostege Definition The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Branchiostegous Definition Branchiostegal.
- English Word Branchiostoma Definition The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
- English Word Branchiura Definition A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).