Gill

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1. Noun

An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.

2. Noun

The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.

3. Noun

The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

4. Noun

The flesh under or about the chin.

5. Noun

One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.

6. Noun

A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

7. Noun

A leech.

8. Noun

A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.

9. Noun

A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

10. Noun

A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.

11. Noun

The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

12. Noun

Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

13. Noun

respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment

14. Noun

any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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