Having caducous or temporary gills; relating to aquatic animals that shed or lose their gills during development.
From Latin caducus (falling) + branchia (gill, from Greek branchion). A zoological term used to describe certain amphibians or fish.
Tadpoles are caducibranch creatures—they breathe through gills that fall away as they develop lungs and become frogs, showing how one word captures an entire transformation!
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