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

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus..

Fringillaceous :: Fringillaceous (a.) Fringilline.

Brambling :: Brambling (n.) The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.

Hymenium :: Hymenium (n.) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom..

Aspergillum :: Aspergillum (n.) The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

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..

Orgulous :: Orgulous (a.) See Orgillous.

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

Inferobranchiate :: Inferobranchiate (a.) Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata..

Fierasfer :: Fierasfer (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian..

Opercle :: Opercle (n.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.

Sigillarid :: Sigillarid (n.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies..

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

Pectinibranchiate :: Pectinibranchiate (a.) Having pectinated gills.

Hydrobranchiata :: Hydrobranchiata (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera..

Plate-gilled :: Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks..

Pellibranchiata :: Pellibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill..

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..

Asperges :: Asperges (n.) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

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