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BRANCHIOS'TEGOUS, a. [Gr. gills, and a covering.]

Having gill-covers, or covered gills, as a branchiostegous fish; covering the gills, as the branchiostegous membrane. The branchiostegi are an order of fish in the Linnean system, the rays of whose fins are bony,but whose gill-covers are destitute of bony rays.

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