branchial

About 0.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling gills; of or pertaining to the embryonic branchial arches and clefts from which the gills arise.
2. noun A branchial arch.

Similar words

gill branchiomotor pharyngobranchial branchiovisceral branchiootorenal orobranchial demibranchial brachial pseudobranchial branchiomeric

Often followed by

arches arch cleft sac chamber arteries region clefts cavity artery