Vocabulary : Branchiostegal to Brand goose

Branchiostegal : Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. ;; A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.
Branchiostege : The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
Branchiostegous : Branchiostegal.
Branchiostoma : The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
Branchiura : A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

Branchless : Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
Branchlet : A little branch; a twig.
Branchy : Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.
Brand : A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. ;; A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. ;; A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour. ;; A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma. ;; An instrument to brand with; a branding iron. ;; Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei. ;; To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict). ;; To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name o
Brand goose : A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

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