abranchial

1. 1.

   having no gills

   Synonymsabranchiateabranchiousgill-less

Questions about abranchial

What does abranchial mean?

abranchial means "having no gills".

How many syllables are in abranchial?

abranchial has 4 syllables: a-bran-chi-al. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for abranchial?

Close synonyms include abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abranchial a common word?

abranchial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.