资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scutibranchiate \Scu`ti*bran"chi*ate\, a. (Zo["o]l.)
   Having the gills protected by a shieldlike shell; of or
   pertaining to the Scutibranchiata. -- n. One of the
   Scutibranchiata.