gill pouch

[ gil ]
/ gɪl /

noun

branchial pouch.

Origin of gill pouch

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby gill pouch

gill box, gill cleft, gill filament, gill fungus, gill net, gill pouch, gill raker, gill slit, gill-netter, gill-over-the-ground, gillard

Example sentences from the Web for gill pouch

  • The branchial unit in the vertebrate is not the gill-pouch, but the branchial bar or appendage between the pouches.

    The Origin of Vertebrates |Walter Holbrook Gaskell

British Dictionary definitions for gill pouch

gill pouch
/ (ɡɪl) /

noun

any of a series of paired linear pouches in chordate embryos, arising as outgrowths of the wall of the pharynx. In fish and some amphibians they become the gill slits