Definition of gill

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Gill (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom..

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Cyclobranchiate :: Cyclobranchiate (a.) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets..
Suprachoroid :: Suprabranchial (a.) Situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.
Quartern :: Quartern (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.)..
Siren :: Siren (n.) Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long..
Argillous :: Argillous (a.) Argillaceous; clayey.
Hymenium :: Hymenium (n.) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom..
Branchiostegal :: Branchiostegal (a.) Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
Perennibranchiate :: Perennibranchiate (a.) Having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate..
Log :: Log (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills..
Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata..
Gill :: Gill (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
Operculated :: Operculated (a.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes..
Trachelobranchiate :: Trachelobranchiate (a.) Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Fungilliform :: Fungilliform (a.) Shaped like a small fungus.
Pectinibranchiate :: Pectinibranchiate (a.) Having pectinated gills.
Plate-gilled :: Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks..
Fringilla :: Fringilla (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling..
Greengill :: Greengill (n.) An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood..
Gill-flirt :: Gill-flirt (n.) A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill..
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