gill-less

1. 1.

   having no gills

   Synonymsabranchiateabranchialabranchious

Questions about gill-less

What does gill-less mean?

gill-less means "having no gills".

How many syllables are in gill-less?

gill-less has 2 syllables: gill--less. The stress falls on "gill-".

What is another word for gill-less?

Close synonyms include abranchiate, abranchial, abranchious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gill-less a common word?

gill-less is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.