Definitions
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- adjective Having gills. Opposite of
abranchiate .
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- adjective Having
gills
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- adjective provided with gills
Etymologies
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Examples
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A bass of nine pounds 'weight can be "gilled" in the ordinary manner; but in one instance a fish weighing one hundred and two pounds was caught, and during the present season they were informed that a lucky fisherman at
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Nothing special, but the gilled pork chop got the job done.
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Dragons, with broad fan-gilled heads and fanged jaws wide, roared as their eellike bodies slithered into the water behind the unicorns.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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Like everyone else on the team, she now could pass—unless scrutinized very closely—for one of the green, gilled, moist-skinned, sentient amphibians who built and maintained the city.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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Like everyone else on the team, she now could pass—unless scrutinized very closely—for one of the green, gilled, moist-skinned, sentient amphibians who built and maintained the city.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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Like everyone else on the team, she now could pass—unless scrutinized very closely—for one of the green, gilled, moist-skinned, sentient amphibians who built and maintained the city.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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The shell-less albino gilled turtle is right up there with the majestic coiled craphound and oh, so many others!
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Larvae of this species fail to undergo metamorphosis, so the adults remain aquatic and gilled.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Larvae of this species fail to undergo metamorphosis, so the adults remain aquatic and gilled.
What The Hell Am I? 2007
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An Oregon scientist has discovered the first known species of gilled underwater mushroom, Psathyrella aquatica, in the cold waters of the Rogue River.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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