Definition of Lungfishes

1. Noun. (plural of lungfish) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lungfishes

1. lungfish [n] - See also: lungfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungfishes

lunge
lunge line
lunged
lungedness
lungee
lungees
lungeing
lungeing cavesson
lungeing rein
lungeing reins
lungen
lunger
lungers
lunges
lungfish
lungfishes (current term)
lungful
lungfuls
lungi
lungie
lungies
lunging
lungis
lungless
lungless salamander
lunglessness
lunglike
lungo
lungoor
lungoors

Literary usage of Lungfishes

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

1. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"The sinus venosus, the auricle, and the conus are imperfectly divided in the lungfishes, suggesting the condition in amphibia. ..."

2. Zoology: Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"THE lungfishes. In the lungfishes the development of the air bladder as a lung is much more complete than in any of the ..."

3. Zoölogy, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"THE lungfishes. In the lungfishes the development of the air bladder as a lung is much more complete than in any of the ..."

4. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"lungfishes were the next; so that the amphibians began along here also somewhere. ... Possibly the lungfishes tended thus strongly to become FIG. 75. ..."

5. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The lungfishes are at the present day represented only by three genera, with but very few species, but they were formerly a very numerous group, ..."

6. The Story of the Fishes by James Newton Baskett (1899)
"lungfishes were the next; so that the amphibians began along here also somewhere. ... Possibly the lungfishes tended thus strongly to become FIG. 75. ..."

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