external gill

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   occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians

   Broadergill

Questions about external gill

What does external gill mean?

external gill means "occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians".

Is external gill a common word?

external gill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.