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Definitions of gills
Definition that contains gills
  • fish any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
  • ray cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
  • siren eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills
  • pint a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
  • lug marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
  • sunfish small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
  • gilled provided with gills
  • olm European aquatic salamander with permanent external gills that lives in caves
  • abranchiate having no gills
  • white matsutake a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest
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