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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cavity or chamber containing the gills, as of a crustacean or fish.
- noun A saccular or pouch-like gill; a kind of rudimentary gill of some fishes, as the myzonts, which have consequently been called marsipo-branchiates.
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