gill-like
- a word derived from gill.
Example Sentences
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Huerta’s performance is weighted more with sorrow than anger, and his people, with their blue skins and gill-like masks, are beautiful and mysterious.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
These mushroom-producing basidiomyces are sometimes referred to as “gill fungi” because of the presence of gill-like structures on the underside of the cap.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
And adult acorn worms — together only with chordates — have gill-like pharyngeal slits for breathing and feeding.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 15, 2013
The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
Branchiae: air tubes or gill-like processes of aquatic larva;.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
