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  1. fish lungsnoun

    where a fish breathes

    gills

    Submitted by 32ksausi on November 1, 2023  

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  1. Olga Katic:

    If you get some mushrooms from the store and expose their gills — the feathery ribs on the underside of the mushroom cap — to sunlight, their vitamin D content shoots up, there are so many interesting compounds in them.

  2. Lindsey Dougherty:

    When most people imagine clams, they imagine the things that make clam chowder, these clams are very different. They're reef-dwelling, they have bright-red tentacles, they have gills that stick out, they live in little crevasses [and] they are the only species of clam that flashes.

  3. Dan Porter:

    They rely on clean, well-oxygenated water, when the wildfire chocks the stream full of mud, the oxygen-holding capacity of the water is reduced. It clogs gills ; it clogs egg sacs.

  4. Christopher Pyne:

    It affects the European carp by attacking their kidneys, their skin, their gills and stopping them breathing effectively.

  5. Robert Atkinson:

    More and more the incremental growth will go offshore, just simply for the fact that these( domestic) places are packed to the gills.

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