Meanings
- not comparableLacking gills.
Some salamanders are both gillless and lungless as adults, relying solely on cutaneous respiration to breathe.
3 more examples
...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 FoodHowever, 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
- Englishgill
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishgillless
Translations
Dutch kieuwenloos
- kieuwenlooslacking gills
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with gillless
Cite this entry
gillless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gillless
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