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gillespie
  • n  United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)
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gillette
  • n  United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)
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gillie
  • n  a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief
  • n  a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep
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gilgamish
  • n  legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics
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gill
  • n  a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
  • n  a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
  • n  any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
  • n  respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
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gill-over-the-ground
  • n  trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta
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gill arch
  • n  one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians
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gill bar
  • n  one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians
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gill cleft
  • n  one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes
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gill net
  • n  a flat fishnet suspended vertically in the water to entangle fish by their gills
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gill slit
  • n  one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes
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gilles de la tourette syndrome
  • n  neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia
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