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gills

US // (ɡɪlz) //

鳃,鳃部,腮帮子,腮腺

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : the wattle of birds such as domestic fowl
    • : green around the gills or green about the gills informal looking or feeling nauseated

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Examples

  • Our lovely hotel perched on top a steep hill overlooking the mountains was also packed to the gills.

  • Meant to capture fish by the gills (hence the name), they snare anything from sea turtles to dolphins.

  • They seem, in fact, like cranky, petulant children, coked to the gills.

  • Federal courthouses are backlogged and stuffed to the gills as it is.

  • He turned kind of white around the gills when he first felt the halter around his neck, and then braced up and not a whimper.

  • Some of them even are vegetarians—which is rare among fish—and their gills are smaller and stouter.

  • The outer layer of the body serves this purpose in very simple animals; gills or lungs are developed in more complex animals.

  • They breathe by means of gills, delicate organs fitted for taking oxygen out of the water.

  • In the earlier stages of their development they take oxygen into the blood by means of gills.