Adam Gopnik

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

American Writer

August Krogh

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

Danish Scientist

Paul Stamets

Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.

American Scientist

Yelawolf

I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.

American Musician

Walter Lang

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

American Director

Tom Douglas

Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage.

American Chef

Nick Clegg

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

British Politician

Ambrose Bierce

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

American Journalist

Ryan Stiles

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

American Actor

Remember 'gill' refers to fish breathing like humans use lungs.

Aquatic Breathing

'Gill' is physical and often seen as slits on a fish's side.

Visible Feature

A 'gill' is a small volume used historically in cooking or old recipes.

Volume Measure

The volume meaning of 'gill' is less used today; know conversion if needed.

Less Common

'Gill' also refers to parts of mushrooms, not just animals.

Mushroom Anatomy

Mushroom gills are for spreading spores, like seeds dispersal in plants.

Spore Dispersal

In metallurgy, a 'gill' is a flaw, not to be confused with an intentional feature.

Casting Defect

The presence of gills can indicate poor design or execution in metalwork.

Quality Indicator

In certain dialects, 'gill' indicates a natural landscape feature.

Geographical Feature

'Gill' as a valley is specific to regions like Northern England; relate it to local geography.

Topographical Vocabulary

 Here, venous blood warmed up by the shark's working muscles passes right next to arteries carrying cold, oxygen-rich blood from the gills. This arrangement transfers heat to the blood that gets cycled back to the body's vital organs. Warmer muscles enable faster, more powerful swimming, while warmer bellies aid digestion,

Why are sharks so...

 That's a really good question, because penguins do spend a lot of their time swimming and diving. That's how they catch fish to eat. But they don't breathe underwater. They don't have gills like a fish does. What they do is they'll take a really deep breath before they dive, so they'll hold their breath

Can Penguins Fly? PIPE...

 and millions of baby larvae hatch into the world. When they first emerge, the larvae are tiny and vulnerable. Some don't even have gills yet and must absorb oxygen directly from the water through their tissue-thin skin. They may float in the water column anywhere from minutes to months,

The secret lives of baby...

 Eels were said to hatch on rooftops, manifest from the gills of other fish, and even emerge from the bodies of beetles. But the true story of eel reproduction is even more difficult to imagine. And to solve this slippery mystery, scholars would have to rethink centuries of research.

No one can figure out...

 When you have two outliers in one organism, it's not a coincidence. When you have someone who is more competitive and more compassionate than anybody else in the race, again, it's not a coincidence. You show me a creature with webbed feet and gills; somehow water's involved.

Are we born to run? PIPE...

 An inhalation that could move water over gills followed by a rapid closure of the glottis preventing water from entering the lungs. That's supported by evidence which suggests that the neural patterning involved in generating a hiccup

Why do we hiccup? - John...

 hundreds of millions of years ago it's interesting to researchers because of its night vision and ability to overcome both crushing depths and freezing and deep dark waters the six gills reach up to 13 feet in length and this is just

"Prehistoric" Shark Seen...

 no bigger than a human eyelash. Within its first year of life, It develops something known as regional endothermy— the ability to regulate its body temperature. An Atlantic bluefin gets oxygen from cold ocean water using its gills.

Meet the bluefin tuna,...

 what does it take for lily to get airborne to find out lloyd and rose have enlisted the help of bird expert professor graham martin and high-speed cameraman mark payne gill

A Collection Of Autumn...

 external gills help it to breathe in water that is particularly though in oxygen