Crossword-Solution: BRANCHIOSTEGAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Branchiostegal | a. | Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. |
| Branchiostegal | n. | A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects,
spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally
unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of
growth.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BRANCHIOSTEGAL (3)
These are the bones connected with respiration--the operculum, the branchiostegal rays, the branchial arches, and others.
The hyoid is at first connected with the skull, but afterwards frees itself and becomes slung to the "quadrate." From the hinder edge of the hyoid arch grows out the membranous operculum, in which develop later the opercular bones and branchiostegal rays.
Again, there are those who have written at great length of this and that species and sub-species, with many words and nice distinctions relative to vomerine teeth, branchiostegal rays and other anatomical differences.