Gill

Quick meaning: Gill is a noun meaning (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.

Meaning

(zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.

More Meanings

1. (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
2. (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
3. (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
4. (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
5. (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
6. To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
7. (transitive) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.

Example Sentences

dropsy fills you to the gills

She gutted and gilled the fish, then scaled it.

Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.

Fishes […] perform their respiration under water by the gills.

Word Forms

• gills
• gilling
• gilled

Synonyms for gill

Depending on context, synonyms include branchia, prostitute, lamella.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include branchia, lamella, branchial, gillnet, mesh, generation.

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