Definition of Dipnoous

1. having lungs and gills [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipnoous

diplotene
diplotenes
diploteratology
diplozoa
diplozoon
dipluran
dipmein
dipnet
dipnets
dipnetted
dipnetting
dipneumona
dipnoan
dipnoans
dipnoi
dipnoous (current term)
dipodal
dipodia
dipodic
dipodies
dipodomys
dipody
dipolar
dipolar buffer
dipolar ions
dipolarophile
dipolarophiles
dipolarophilic
dipole
dipole antenna

Literary usage of Dipnoous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and edited by [Anonymus AC02893924] (1872)
"A third point of the deep interest is the great antiquity of the dipnoous type. At the commencement of these notes we have seen that there is no evidence to ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"... that they are well-marked modifications of the same (dipnoous) type, the latter genus diverging more towards the Amphibians than the former. 2. ..."

3. Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales: Illustrated by by William Branwhite Clarke (1878)
"Now, at present, scarcely any zoologist will deny that there must have been a continuity of the dipnoous type ; and it is only a proofi of the ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Ganoid, and more especially to the dipnoous type, become manifest in their notochordal skeleton and continuity of cranial cartilage. ..."

5. The Ancient Life-history of the Earth: A Comprehensive Outline of the by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1898)
"LEPIDOSIREN (Gr. lepis, a scale ; seiren, a siren—the generic name of the Mud- eel or Siren lacertina). A genus of -dipnoous fishes, comprising the ..."

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