gillless
/ɡɪlˈlɛs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some salamanders are both gillless and lungless as adults, relying solely on cutaneous respiration to breathe."
- "...which closely resembles the golden chanterelle, except that it is white and slightly larger; the gillless chanterelle..."
- "However, in Cloeon evidence from experiments with gilled and gillless nymphs suggests that the primary, perhaps sole, function of gill movement is to reduce..."
- "...borne by four branchial arches, and the fifth arch is gillless..."
Etymology
Etymology tree English gill Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English gillless From gill + -less.