PROSOBRANCH


Meaning of PROSOBRANCH in English

[pros.o.branch] n, pl -branchs [NL Prosobranchia, fr. proso- in front (fr. Gk proso forward) + branchia gills (fr. Gk)] (1851): any of a subclass (Prosobranchia) of gastropod mollusks that have the loop of visceral nerves twisted into a figure 8, the sexes usu. separate, and usu. an operculum -- prosobranch adj

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