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dibranchiate, a. and n. Zool.|daɪˈbræŋkɪət| [f. mod.L. dibranchiāta, f. as prec.: see -ate2.] A. adj. Belonging to the Dibranchiata, an order of cephalopods having two branchiæ or gills. B. n. A cephalopod belonging to this order.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 520/1 The Dibranchiate Order of Cephalopods. Ibid. 528/2 The..suckers with which the..arms of the Dibranchiates are provided. 1875Blake Zool. 244 In the dibranchiate Cephalopods, the animal is swimming. So diˈbranchious a., ‘having two branchiæ or gills.’ Syd. Soc. Lex. 1883. |