Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal which breathes air; specifically, a marine animal breathing out of water by means of lungs, instead of under water by means of gills.
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Examples
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Last issue Wally built a huge freeze ray that only slowed the Cthulhu-like creatures, causing them to turn their attention from the air-breathers of the Central City to the air-breather called Wally West located in Star Labs.
The Flash #233 – The Wild Wests: Fleeting Lives | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The world of the sea -- could any air-breather know it?
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Its fusorians that gave it power, its parasitic Reef animalcules that made it possible for a warm-blooded air-breather to live in space in the first place, their numbers had been greatly diminished.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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"Now, because we have found a fossil lungfish in a marine environment that is an air-breather, it shows that entering a freshwater environment wasn't the main cause, it was global oxygen levels," he added.
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"Now, because we have found a fossil lungfish in a marine environment that is an air-breather, it shows that entering a freshwater environment wasn't the main cause, it was global oxygen levels," he added.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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"Now, because we have found a fossil lungfish in a marine environment that is an air-breather, it shows that entering a freshwater environment wasn't the main cause, it was global oxygen levels," he added.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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"Now, because we have found a fossil lungfish in a marine environment that is an air-breather, it shows that entering a freshwater environment wasn't the main cause, it was global oxygen levels," he added.
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I like the way they take the Creature and turn him into an air-breather instead of a water-breather, which basically turns it into a Frankenstein / monster-on-the-rampage movie.
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Jets of small bubbles streamed from the secretary’s gill crests—the equivalent of an air-breather’s sigh.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009
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Jets of small bubbles streamed from the secretary’s gill crests—the equivalent of an air-breather’s sigh.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009
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