Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dibranchiata

Dibranchiata , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek di- = di`s- twice + {not transcribed} gills.]

(Zoology) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.