| Noun | 1. | gill - a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimetersfluid ounce, fluidounce - a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches) pint - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters | |
| 2. | gill - a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ouncescup - a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces | |
| 3. | gill - any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungusplant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus | |
| 4. | gill - respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in waterctenidium - comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks ceras - one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills external gill - occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians | |