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gill pouch

[ gil ]
/ gɪl /
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noun

branchial pouch.

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Nearby words

gill box, gill cleft, gill filament, gill fungus, gill net, gill pouch, gill raker, gill slit, gill-netter, gill-over-the-ground, gillard

Origin of gill pouch

First recorded in 1900–05
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Examples from the Web for gill pouch

  • The branchial unit in the vertebrate is not the gill-pouch, but the branchial bar or appendage between the pouches.

    The Origin of Vertebrates|Walter Holbrook Gaskell

British Dictionary definitions for gill pouch

gill pouch

/ (ɡɪl) /

noun

any of a series of paired linear pouches in chordate embryos, arising as outgrowths of the wall of the pharynx. In fish and some amphibians they become the gill slits
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