lophobranch

[lof-uh-brangk, loh-fuh-]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, seahorses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.

noun

a lophobranch fish.

lophobranch

/ ˈləʊfəˌbræŋk, ˌləʊfəˈbræŋkɪɪt, -ˌeɪt /

noun

any teleost fish of the suborder Lophobranchii, having the gills arranged in rounded tufts: includes the pipefishes and sea horses

adjective

of, relating to, or belonging to the Lophobranchii

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Other Word Forms

lophobranchiate adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of lophobranch¹

First recorded in 1855–60; from New Latin Lophobranchii name of the group, from Greek ��ó��(�ǲ�) “crest (of a helmet or hill), tuft” + -o- connecting vowel + ��Գ��í(��) “gills (of fishes), bronchial tubes” + Latin -ī nominative plural noun ending; branchia, -o-

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Example Sentences

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This high-principled lophobranch is so careful of its callow and helpless young that it carries about the unhatched eggs with him under his own tail, in what scientific ichthyologists pleasantly describe as a subcaudal pouch or cutaneous receptacle.

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lopho-lophodont

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