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gill (enc)

Gill

Noun1.gill - a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit - a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet
fluid 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 ounces
United States liquid unit - a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System
fluid ounce, fluidounce - a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches
cup - 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 fungus
plant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus
4.gill - respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
ctenidium - 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
respiratory organ - any organ involved in the process of respiration

 

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