branchiate

1. 1.

   provided with gills

   “a gilled tadpole”

   Synonymsgilled

   Antonymsabranchiate

Questions about branchiate

What does branchiate mean?

branchiate means "provided with gills".

How many syllables are in branchiate?

branchiate has 3 syllables and divides as bran-chi-ate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for branchiate?

Close synonyms include gilled. 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.