abranchiate

1. 1.

   having no gills

   Synonymsabranchialabranchiousgill-less

   Antonymsbranchiate

Questions about abranchiate

What does abranchiate mean?

abranchiate means "having no gills".

How many syllables are in abranchiate?

abranchiate has 4 syllables: a-bran-chi-ate. The stress falls on "bran".

What is another word for abranchiate?

Close synonyms include abranchial, 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.

What is the opposite of abranchiate?

The recorded antonyms are branchiate.

Is abranchiate a common word?

abranchiate 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.