Definition of gill

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

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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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