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1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 30 Which bones are called the Radii Branchiostegi, or the Gill-covering Rays.

1829 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1 363 (table) Animals. Gill-breathing. Fish.

1844 W. S. W. Ruschenberger Elements Herpetol. & Ichthyol. Gloss. 131/2 Branchifera, gill-bearing. Systematic name of a family of batrachians.

1871 M. C. Cooke Plain & Easy Acct. Brit. Fungi 125 Order I.—Agaricini. Gill-bearing Fungi.

1908 F. R. Lillie Devel. of Chick 178 The portion of the pharynx that includes the visceral pouches may be called the branchial portion, because it is homologous to the gill-bearing portion in fishes and amphibia.

1911 G. Smith Primitive Animals vi. 107 The higher land Vertebrates..have preserved in their development the abbreviated history of their gill-possessing ancestors.

1946 M. C. Rayner in F. Sykes Humus & Farmer xiii. 100 Their sporophores are the common toadstools of woodlands and forests. They belong to the Hymenomycetes, many to the same gill-bearing family as the common mushroom.

1992 R. G. Boutilier et al. in M. E. Feder & W. W. Burggren Environm. Physiol. Amphibians v. 89/1 Gill-breathing urodeles such as Ambystoma also risk losing O₂ to hypoxic water.

2008 B. Schutt Dark Banquet ix. 274 These integumentary teeth or odontodes..are found in patches around the candiru's head (including their own gill-covering opercular and interopercular bones).

2010 tr. M. Laurin How Vertebr. left Water iii. 60 Among arachnids, the gill-bearing legs have fused to the ventral surface of the abdomen and the gills have been modified into lungs.