Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with lungs, as an animal; pulmonary or pulmonate, as a mollusk; of or pertaining to the Pulmonifera.
- Containing the lungs, as a part of the body: as, the pulmoniferous somites of an arachnidan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having lungs; pulmonate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having
lungs ;pulmonate .
Etymologies
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Latin pulmo, pulmonis, a lung + -ferous.
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