Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no lungs; not pulmonate, as certain inferior animals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Being without lungs.

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  • adjective Without lungs.

Etymologies

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lung +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Journal of Zoology includes the description of a new plethodontid salamander (aka lungless salamander): the Patch-nosed salamander

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States

    New North American Salamander 2009

  • A rare aquatic frog, Barbourula kalimantanensis, from Borneo has been confirmed as the only known (so far) lungless frog.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • In total, the hotspot has approximately 160 species of the order Caudata (the newts and salamanders), and some 120 are endemic; all endemics belong to the family Plethodontidae (lungless salamanders).

    Biological diversity in Mesoamerica 2008

  • Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, family Plethodontidae.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • In lungless and non-respiring animals it is employed in working up the food, while in those of them that require refrigeration it is the gills that are created for this purpose.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • In lungless and non-respiring animals it is employed in working up the food, while in those of them that require refrigeration it is the gills that are created for this purpose.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • Democritus of Abdera and certain others who have treated of respiration, while saying nothing definite about the lungless animals, nevertheless seem to speak as if all breathed.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • Democritus of Abdera and certain others who have treated of respiration, while saying nothing definite about the lungless animals, nevertheless seem to speak as if all breathed.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

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