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Dibranchiate :: Dibranchiate (a.) Having two gills.

Trachystomata :: Trachystomata (n. pl.) An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life..

Tracheobranchia :: Tracheobranchia (n.) One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.

Branchiopoda :: Branchiopoda (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense..

Spirable :: Spiodea (n. pl.) An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes..

Gill :: Gill (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.

Perennibranchiata :: Perennibranchiata (n. pl.) Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus..

Caducibranchiate :: Caducibranchiate (a.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

Fungilliform :: Fungilliform (a.) Shaped like a small fungus.

Gill :: Gill (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..

Fringilline :: Fringilline (a.) Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.

Ascidioidea :: Ascidioidea (n. pl.) A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix..

Tubicolae :: Tubicolae (n. pl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

Obsigillation :: Obsigillation (n.) A sealing up.

Aspergill :: Aspergill (n.) Alt. of Aspergillu.

Siphonarid :: Siphonarid (n.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.

Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia..

Aspersorium :: Aspersorium (n.) A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

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