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Argillite :: Argillite (n.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc..

Gill :: Gill (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

Suggillation :: Suggillate (v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue..

Priapulacea :: Priapulacea (n. pl.) A suborder of Gephyraea, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills..

Scaphognathite :: Scaphognathite (n.) A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

Sigillated :: Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Lungfish :: Lungfish (n.) Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

Sigillaria :: Sigillaria (n.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.

July-flower :: July-flower (n.) See Gillyflower.

Jill :: Jill (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.

Palliobranchiate :: Palliobranchiate (a.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods..

Potamospongiae :: Potamospongiae (n. pl.) The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.

Flirt-gill :: Flirt-gill (n.) A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt.

Amphiuma :: Amphiuma (n.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake..

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus..

Operculum :: Operculum (n.) The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover.

Aspersoir :: Aspersoir (n.) An aspergill.

Hag :: Hag (n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken..

Beard :: Beard (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

Haddock :: Haddock (n.) A marine food fish (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie..

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