Having the characteristics of branchiopods; possessing gill-bearing or leaf-like legs.
From 'branchiopod' + '-ous' (adjective suffix). Describes anatomical features consistent with the branchiopod body plan, particularly multifunctional limbs.
If you're branchiopodous, you've kept appendages simple enough to be gills, legs, and filters all at once—it's biological multitasking that more specialized creatures abandoned.
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