Usually means: Opening for breathing in fish.
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  1. gill slit: Merriam-Webster
  2. gill slit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gill slit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gill slit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gill slit: Vocabulary.com
  6. gill slit: Wordnik
  7. gill slit: Wiktionary
  8. gill slit: Dictionary.com
  9. Gill slit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. gill slit: Rhymezone
  11. gill slit: FreeDictionary.org
  12. gill slit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. gill slit: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gill slit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gill slit: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gill slit: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gill slit: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gill slit)

noun:  (anatomy, zoology) An individual opening to gills, which lacks an operculum; characteristic of cartilaginous fish such as sharks.

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