单词 | gill basket |
释义 | > as lemmasgill basket gill basket n. (in various aquatic animals) a concave framework which encloses or supports the gills. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > order Cyclostomata or Marsipobranchi > member of > part of gill basket1878 1878 A. Macalister Introd. Systematic Zool. & Morphol. Vertebr. Animals viii. 62 (caption) Skull, Gill-basket, and Vertebral Column of Lamprey. 1917 R. J. Tillyard Biol. Dragonflies ix. 184 The total number of capillaries in the gill-basket of Anax reaches 100,000 or more. 1922 J. G. Needham et al. Biol. Surv. Lake George, N.Y. iii. 29 I used constantly through the summer a plankton net of No. 6 silk bolting cloth, whose mesh was approximately the same as that of the whitefish's gill basket. 1996 H. Gee Before Backbone i. 53 The delicate, much-subdivided tunicate gill-basket is enclosed within an ‘extra’ body wall or tunic, the structure that gives its name to the group. 2008 Physiol. & Biochem. Zool. 81 312/2 Both gill baskets were dissected from the fish and cleaned of excess cartilage and skin. < as lemmas |
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