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NOUN:
  1. Zoology The respiratory organ of most aquatic animals that breathe water to obtain oxygen, consisting of a filamentous structure of vascular membranes across which dissolved gases are exchanged.
    1. The wattle of a bird. Often used in the plural.
    2. gills Informal The area around the chin and neck.
  3. Botany One of the thin, platelike structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
VERB:
gilled, gill·ing, gills
VERB:
tr.
  1. To catch (fish) in a gill net.
  2. To gut or clean (fish).
VERB:
intr.
To become entangled in a gill net. Used of fish.

IDIOM:
to the gills Informal
As full as possible; completely.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English gile, of Scandinavian origin

OTHER FORMS:
gilled(Adjective)


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