Definitions
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- adjective having no gills
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Examples
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It looks to show a fetus performing a zoological costume change—from minnow to crawfish to chick to possum, emerging triumphantly as a gill-less, wingless human.
Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010
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Man's ancestors are Amniotes or gill-less Vertebrates: (1) Primitive
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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