gill
A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
Other meanings
A gill slit or gill cover.
“Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.”
One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
A kind of
- respiratory organ
Kinds of gill
- external gill
Word history
From Middle English "gille".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “gill” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.