LUNGFISH (lungfishes)

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Irregular inflected form: lungfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lungfish mean? 

• LUNGFISH (noun)
  The noun LUNGFISH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LUNGFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUNGFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lungfish" is a kind of...):

bony fish (any fish of the class Osteichthyes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lungfish"):

ceratodus (extinct lungfish)

Holonyms ("lungfish" is a member of...):

Dipnoi; subclass Dipnoi (bony fishes of the southern hemisphere that breathe by a modified air bladder as well as gills; sometimes classified as an order of Crossopterygii)