gillless
/ɡɪlˈlɛs/
gillless adjective: lacking gills.
Adjective
gillless (not comparable)
- Lacking gills.
- Some salamanders are both gillless and lungless as adults, relying solely on cutaneous respiration to breathe.
- ...which closely resembles the golden chanterelle, except that it is white and slightly larger; the gillless chanterelle...1982, L. Patrick Coyle., The World Encyclopedia of Food
gillless meaning in Bengali
gillless in Bengali
- ফুলকাহীন
Examples of gillless in a sentence
- However, in Cloeon evidence from experiments with gilled and gillless nymphs suggests that the primary, perhaps sole, function of gill movement is to reduce...1992, J.V. Ward., Aquatic Insect Ecology:
- ...borne by four branchial arches, and the fifth arch is gillless...2002, M. Prakash, C. K. Arora., Encyclopædia of Animal Physiology:
Origin of gillless
From gill + -less.
Words that rhyme with gillless
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
Questions about gillless
- What does gillless mean?
- Gillless means lacking gills.
- What is gillless in Bengali?
- Gillless in Bengali is ফুলকাহীন. See Gillless meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use gillless in a sentence?
- However, in Cloeon evidence from experiments with gilled and gillless nymphs suggests that the primary, perhaps sole, function of gill movement is to reduce...
- What part of speech is gillless?
- Gillless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce gillless?
- Gillless is pronounced /ɡɪlˈlɛs/.
Words near gillless in the dictionary
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