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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several elongated freshwater fishes of the Amazon, western and central Africa, and Australia that have lunglike organs as well as gills and are able to breathe air, allowing certain species to survive periods of drought inside a mucus-lined cocoon in the mud.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dipnoan; any fish of the order Dipnoi.

Wiktionary

  1. n. air-breathing fish, of the class Dipnoi, that have four limblike appendages instead of fins

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought

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  • “You stroll around like a Japanese movie-monster, crushing the city on your way to free the lungfish from the mind control device (setup like a giant transmission tower.)”

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  • “One of the few living fish related to these ancient land-dwellers are air-breathers known as lungfish, which are found today in Africa, South America and Australia.”

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  • “Tetrapods are part of a larger groups called Sarcopterygii, which also includes several groups of lobe-finned fish, such as lungfish and the coelacanth.”

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  • “Other animals, such as lungfish and tortoises, burrow into the mud and estivate to survive.”

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  • “Tiktaalik's fin into the fin of a lungfish, meaning this appears to be far simpler of an evolutionary story than what would be required to transform”

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  • “Yet the lungfish and the “modern” fish are at the same distance from all nonfish groups.”

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  • “According to evolutionists, the group of “primitive” lungfish from central Africa has not undergone any evolution whatsoever during the last 350 million years.”

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  • “A better example than the mudskipper would be the coelacanths, or lobe-fin fish which, along with lungfish, diverged about the same time as tetrapods (as supported by genetic evidence).”

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  • “The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.”

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  • “We also find out that - like the African lungfish - the Creature has both lungs and gills.”

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