gill-lessadj.
/ˈɡɪlləs/, U.S. /ˈɡɪ(l)ləs/ Lacking gills (in various senses of gill n.1); not having or bearing gills.
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lungless1606
abranchiate1831
abranchial1833
gill-less1836
apulmonic1874
1836 M. J. Berkeley in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. ii. 208 P[atellea] aciculáris... Care must be taken not to confound with it gill-less forms of Agaricus epiphyllus.
1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals i. 267 Such arches are, therefore, gill-less.
1888 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) I. 356/2 The fish-like gilled tadpole becomes the lunged gill-less frog.
1936 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 5 36 An interesting characteristic of this type of lake is the presence of gill-less Chironomid forms only.
1988 D. Sagan & L. Margulis Gardens Microbial Delights xii. 184 Many of the gill-less fungi..are also wood digesters.
2011 R. Ausubel in New Yorker 4 Apr. 69/1 It was a seal... It was gill-less, an air breather as she was, but it also liked to be wet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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