gills in English

noun

1

the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.

Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills .

2

the vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools.

An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.

3

the wattles or dewlap of a fowl.

4

a unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint.

The sets of weights were once the work tools of the county's pound police where they were used to measure the pounds, ounces, quarters and gills of an untold number of items.

5

a deep ravine, especially a wooded one.

After sampling the cheese, walk to the neighbouring village of Hardraw, which is Old English for ‘shepherd's dwelling ’, and view Hardraw Force where Hearne Beck plunges nearly 100 ft into the deep ghyll below.

6

a young woman; a sweetheart.

7

a female ferret.

A female ferret is called a jill while a male is called a hob.

verb

1

gut or clean (a fish).

Immediately after this, gut and gill all fish you wish to eat.

2

catch (a fish) in a gill net.

noun

• branchia
• lamella

Use "gills" in a sentence

1. Branchio-, Branchi- (Greek: gills) aBranchial aBranchiate (not comparable) Without gills; no gills: An example of an aBranchiate mammal is a whale

2. Gills or Branchiae: (i) Occurrence: The gills are the respiratory organs of aquatic arthropods

3. Well, you better grow gills.

4. Branchial definition, of or relating to gills or to the homologous, embryonic parts in animals without gills

5. Smell of gills and abdominal cavity

6. A little green around the gills.

7. The gills kneading quietly, and the pectorals.

8. Branchia, an Ancient Greek word for gills

9. Sediment also clogs the gills of fishes.

10. The restaurant was packed to the gills.

11. Fish take in oxygen through their gills.

12. All varieties of Chanterelles have false gills, but this variety has virtually no "gills" on the underside

13. It gets in the gills of fish.

14. Arthropodan characteristics: Tracheal gills are present for respiration

15. These parasites infest the gills of freshwater fish.

16. European cave - dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.

17. Branchial - of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection

18. BRANCHIAL Meaning: "of or pertaining to gills," 1774, from Modern Latin branchialis, from Latin Branchiae "gills," from… See definitions of branchial.

19. Atlanteans didn’t have blue skin or gills or fishtails

20. I was stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake.

21. Heavy metal ions precipitate the mucous secretions of their gills .

22. Crawfish and prawns are both crustaceans, but prawns have branching gills and live in salt water, and Crawfish have featherlike gills and live in fresh water

23. Branchiae: gills of fish and their homologs in other vertebrate embryos.

24. Bivalves use their gills as filters This scallop has hundreds of

25. •Chordates that use gills for respiration have a single-loop circulatory system

26. The “gills” of a Chanterelle mushroom is smooth and full of forks.

27. A Chanterelle’s false gills run down the stem, referred to as being decurrent

28. Gibbing involves removing the herring’s gills and its viscera, except for the pancreas.

29. Oil is reported to coat the gills of fish and affect their respiration .

30. The African lungfishes are obligate air breathers, with reduced gills in the adults.

31. Futuristic Factoid: This creature slurps algae and breathes through long, brightly colored gills.

32. They absorb dissolved oxygen from the water as it passes through their gills.

33. Branchiae definition: the gills of an aquatic animal Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

34. Annelid Respiratory System - Some Aquatic Annelids have thin walled gills as respiratory organs

35. By the time the fourth course was served, I was stuffed to the gills.

36. 5 By the time the fourth course was served, I was stuffed to the gills.

37. Fish excrete both from their vents and through the gills in the form of ammonia.

38. Speaking for the UK here, gills is a very well-known word, Branchia the opposite

39. One of the slitlike openings in the gills of fish between the Branchial arches

40. The sinuate gills are pale and often yellowish, becoming pink as the spores develop.

41. Synonyms for Couloirs include canyons, gorges, ravines, passes, gulfs, defiles, gaps, gulches, flumes and gills

42. [From New Latin Branchiopoda, class name : Latin branchia, gills; see branchia + New Latin -poda, -pod.]

43. Fish take in oxygen from the water and excrete ammonia and carbon dioxide through their gills.

44. Traditionally, Agarics were classified based on the presence of gills (thin sheets of spore-bearing cells, …

45. When they hatch from their eggs, Amphibians have gills so they can breathe in the water

46. Matt was out drinking last night and he's a bit green about the gills this morning!

47. Wood Blewit has a blue to violet-tinged cap and gills when young, with pale pink spores

48. Agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

49. Larvae can sometimes have reduced external gills if they live in cold and very oxygen-rich water.

50. Fish exchange gases by pulling oxygen-rich water through their mouths and pumping it over their gills.