Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affecting the lungs.
- adjective Having lungs or lunglike organs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the lungs, in the widest sense; respiratory: as, pulmonary organs.
- Affecting the lungs: as, pulmonary disease.
- Remedial of affections of the lungs; pulmonic: as, pulmonary medicine.
- Done by means of lungs; aërial, as a mode of breathing: opposed to branchial or tracheal: as, pulmonary respiration.
- Having lungs, lung-sacs, or lung-like organs; able to breathe air; pulmobranchiate, pulmonate, or pulmoniferous: distinguished from
branchiate : as, a pulmonary mollusk. - Of or having the characteristics of the Pulmonaria: distinguished from
tracheary : as, a pulmonary arachnidan. - noun A pulmonary arachnidan, as a spider or scorpion; a member of the Pulmonaria.
- noun Lungwort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic.
- adjective See the Note under
Artery . - noun (Bot.) Lungwort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to, having, or affecting the
lungs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or affecting the lungs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin pulmōnārius, from pulmō, pulmōn-, lung; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Latin pulmōnārius ("of the lungs"), from pulmō ("lung") + -ārius, from Proto-Indo-European *pléu-mon-. Cognate with Greek πλεμόνι, French poumon, Lithuanian plauciai, Polish płuco and Russian плавать ("to swim").
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