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The monofilament gill net is an unforgiving device, designed to snag and tear the gills.
Microscopic plankton trapped in the finely tipped gills are pulled slowly into waiting mouths.
It takes several weeks after hatching to form and until then they are dependent on water absorbed through the gills, the same as any other fish.
At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the gills and mouths of fishes much larger than they are.
White-tailed eagles, which inhabit the same territory, may struggle for hours merely to pry an opening around a fish's gills or front fin.
Some others, like the Siamese fighting fish, are capable of breathing air in addition to extracting oxygen from the water with their gills.
To make matters worse, fish have large respiratory membranes, the gills, which expose a huge amount of surface area to the watery medium.
In fish, the branchial apparatus forms a system of gills for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the water.
Fish with torn gills die as inevitably as you would if your lungs were shredded.
In any fish, when blood cycles through the gills to receive oxygen, it also cools to the temperature of the surrounding water.
Cold, foamy water hushed over the rocks, and the gills of the fishes that swam in it caressed the rocks.
In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear gills and are used for gas exchange.
Fish start to suffocate out of water and their gills may collapse and bleed.
In addition to two eyes and a mouth, this animal has markings suggesting gills.
In some forms the gills were able to remain moist and so allow the animal to move about on land for short periods.
Look for the white cap, stout white stem which detaches easily from the cap, and the pink gills, which turn brown as the mushroom matures.
He squatted next to her and ran his fingers gently along the gills of one of the large mushrooms.
Indeed when Alex got back from the morgue he was looking distinctly pale and green around the gills.
He bumbled around working out what he needed, so green around the gills, that one had to laugh.
A couple of the lads were looking decidedly green around the gills, some didn't complete the challenge and scored minus points.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A spore print may be made in the same manner as from mushrooms having gills.
Differs from T. personatum in the short, stout, squamulose stem, and absence of purple tint on gills.
It was SRO in the meeting room, packed to the gills with the entire ad-hoc, except for my new recruits.
In this figure one can see the change in color of the gills just at the time when they begin to deliquesce.
The gills are crowded, and when bruised, or in age, the indigo blue color changes somewhat to greenish.
This genus can be readily recognized from the black spores and from the deliquescence of the gills and cap into an inky substance.
Its habitat, its reddish or alutaceous cap, and its paler gills will clearly identify the species.
The umbonate pileus and the nearly free, broad, gray gills will distinguish it.
Roman punch has a cupful or two gills of rum added to a quart of lemon-ice.
The gills are attached to the stem or notched near the junction of the gills and the stem.
The class of Mollusca comprising the ordinary bivalves, characterised by the possession of lamellar gills.
In addition to this, there is a membrane in the mouth which can be inflated through the gills.
The gills are generally forked, once or several times, in a dichotomous manner, though sometimes irregularly.
On either side of the body between the mantle and the foot are two flat gills each composed of two lamellae.
The gill-cavity in salpa is much altered, the gills projecting into it dividing it into two chambers.
The gills have become shifted forward by a metastasis similar to that which brought the whole thoracic organs far forward in fish.
In some of the species of Omphalia the pileus is not umbilicate, but here the gills are plainly decurrent.
In Doliolum the body is barrel-shaped and the gills are less modified than in salpa.
The mottled appearance of the gills is due to the falling of the black spores.
A number of neuropterous insects whose early stages are passed in the water are furnished with branchial trache or false gills.
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