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gilled

Variant of gill

noun

  1. the organ for breathing of most animals that live in water, as fish, lobsters, or clams, consisting of a simple saclike or complex feathery evagination of the body surface, usually richly supplied with blood
    1. the red flesh hanging below the beak of a fowl; wattle
    2. the flesh under and about the chin and lower jaw of a person
  2. any of the thin, leaflike, radiating plates on the undersurface of a mushroom, on which the basidiospores are produced

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