AIR-BREATHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does air-breathing mean? 

• AIR-BREATHING (adjective)
  The adjective AIR-BREATHING has 1 sense:

1. deriving oxygen from the air

  Familiarity information: AIR-BREATHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR-BREATHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deriving oxygen from the air

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils

Pertainym:

breathing (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

 Context examples 

The juveniles of this class metamorphose from water-breathing organisms to air-breathing organisms upon adult maturation.

(Amphibia, NCI Thesaurus)