gill
branquia
definition
verb
Immediately after this, gut and gill all fish you wish to eat.
gut or clean (a fish).
catch (a fish) in a gill net.
noun
Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills .
the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx.
An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
the vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools.
translation of 'gill'
noun
agalla,
branquita,
cuarta parte de una pinta,
branquia
example
Her cheese pudding has an ounce and a half of breadcrumbs, an ounce of cheese, one 'gill' of milk and half an egg.
At school we had a free 'gill' of milk each morning break as part of the government's plan to build a nation of healthy young things.
Immediately after this, gut and 'gill' all fish you wish to eat.
It's lovely, you sort of follow a 'gill' that has alders like the River Cover, but almost different trees, small and gnarled and ancient looking.
A tot is a sixth, a fifth, a quarter or a third of a 'gill' of whisky.
Rustic enough that the notice over the bar still claimed to serve spirits in measures of 1/6 'gill' .
In fish, the branchial apparatus forms a system of 'gills' for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the water.
Fish, for example, pump water across their 'gills' with their head muscles.
These fish do not have 'gills' or opercula (gill coverings) like most bony fishes.
In some forms the 'gills' were able to remain moist and so allow the animal to move about on land for short periods.
Notice the three large 'gills' that the animal uses to ‘breathe’ in its underwater environment.
To make matters worse, fish have large respiratory membranes, the 'gills' , which expose a huge amount of surface area to the watery medium.
After sampling the cheese, walk to the neighbouring village of Hardraw, which is Old English for ‘shepherd's dwelling ’, and view Hardraw Force where Hearne Beck plunges nearly 100 ft into the deep 'ghyll' below.
They depend on this to acquire dissolved nutrients from the surrounding water, in much the same way that animals use the large surface area of their 'gills' in order to obtain oxygen.
In any fish, when blood cycles through the 'gills' to receive oxygen, it also cools to the temperature of the surrounding water.
When in the water, they breathe with their 'gills' as most fish do.
In addition to two eyes and a mouth, this animal has markings suggesting 'gills' .
In an attempt to sell it all, he would visit motor camps, his car towing a trailer loaded with iced, 'gilled' and gutted fish and him shouting, ‘fresh snapper for sale!’
Barracuda often pump their jaws in order to move water past their 'gills' .
In fishes there is equivalent ‘ventilation’ of the 'gills' with water.
At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the 'gills' and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
He squatted next to her and ran his fingers gently along the 'gills' of one of the large mushrooms.
It takes several weeks after hatching to form and until then they are dependent on water absorbed through the 'gills' , the same as any other fish.
White-tailed eagles, which inhabit the same territory, may struggle for hours merely to pry an opening around a fish's 'gills' or front fin.
A man who failed to return home from a walk in the Helvellyn area spent the night under a bush in a 'ghyll' as 32 rescuers from three areas searched the entire range for him.
In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear 'gills' and are used for gas exchange.
An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has 'gills' in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
Agaricus indicates a mushroom with 'gills' , and bisporus refers to this variety's self-sufficiently needing no second mushroom to make little mushrooms.
A small whole bass of anything up to about four pounds gets scaled when caught, 'gilled' and gutted.
Otherwise they have to keep swimming to force oxygenated water past their 'gills' .
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