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Definition of Gill-less
1. Adjective. Having no gills.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gill-less
Literary usage of Gill-less
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1886)
"In Lepidosiren it issues from the point of junction of'two gill-less and two
gill-bearing venc e branchiales, thus receiving mixed blue and red blood, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The instance of the gilled axolotl becoming, in the absence of sufficient water,
the gill-less ambly- stoma, forcibly illustrates the importance of the ..."
3. The evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"M I.) The human germ possesses, in essential points, the organization of a gill
less cranial animal (like the developed ..."
4. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1871)
"In these, as in all vertebrates above the amphibia (newts and frogs), the only
gill- arch developed is the first, and this is gill-less, but is made to ..."
5. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"so aggregated at the anterior part of the bottom of the respiratory cavity, that
the space corresponding to the last two pairs of feet appears gill-less. ..."
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