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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..

Sigillative :: Sigillative (a.) Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.

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

Dermobranchiate :: Dermobranchiate (a.) Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.

Hin :: Hin (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure..

Gill :: Gill (n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.

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

Aspergilliform :: Aspergilliform (a.) Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma..

Carinaria :: Carinaria (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills..

Phyllobranchia :: Phyllobranchia (n.) A crustacean gill composed of lamellae.

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

Sabella :: Sabella (n.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.

Suprachoroid :: Suprabranchial (a.) Situated above the branchiae; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.

Inferobranchiata :: Inferobranchiata (n. pl.) A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle..

Cowfish :: Cowfish (n.) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).

Laterite :: Laterite (n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India..

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

Ghyll :: Ghyll (n.) A ravine. See Gill a woody glen.

Stomate :: Stomapoda (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea..

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

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