| NOUN | animal | branchia, gill | respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water |
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| Meaning | respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water. | |
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| Synonym | gill | |
| Narrower | ceras | One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills |
| ctenidium | comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks | |
| external gill | Occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians | |
| Broader | respiratory organ | Any organ involved in the process of respiration |
| Spanish | agalla, branquia | |
| Catalan | brànquia, gala, ganya | |
| Adjectives | branchial | of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) |
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