gills

/ (ɡɪlz) /


pl n
  1. (sometimes singular) the wattle of birds such as domestic fowl

  2. green around the gills or green about the gills informal looking or feeling nauseated

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How to use gills in a sentence

  • Some of them even are vegetarians—which is rare among fish—and their gills are smaller and stouter.

    The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  • The outer layer of the body serves this purpose in very simple animals; gills or lungs are developed in more complex animals.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • They breathe by means of gills, delicate organs fitted for taking oxygen out of the water.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • In the earlier stages of their development they take oxygen into the blood by means of gills.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter

Other Idioms and Phrases with gills

gills

see fed to the gills; green about the gills.

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