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Webster 1913 Edition

Tubulibranchiata

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Tuˊbu-li-branˊchi-a′ta

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., from L.

tubulus

a little tube +

branchia

a gill.]

(Zool.)

A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.