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LUNGFISH
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Irregular inflected form: lungfishes
I. (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:
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)
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