Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun branchial_cleft

1 sense of branchial cleft

Sense 1
gill slit, branchial cleft, gill cleft -- (one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes)
       => structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure -- (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure")