Word.ws English Dictionary

book lung

book lung noun: a lamellate respiratory organ found in arachnids.

Noun

book lung (plural book lungs)

  1. A lamellate respiratory organ found in arachnids.
    • In addition to book lungs most spiders also have a second respiratory system in the form of paired tracheae; Atypus has none.1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, page 16

Forms of book lung

pluralbook lungs
alternative formbook-lung

Questions about book lung

What does book lung mean?
Book lung means a lamellate respiratory organ found in arachnids.
What part of speech is book lung?
Book lung is a noun.
What is the plural of book lung?
The plural of book lung is book lungs.

Words near book lung in the dictionary

  1. book learning
  2. book lore
  3. book louse
  4. book lover
  5. book lovers
  6. book lung
  7. book lungs
  8. book mite
  9. book mites
  10. book move
  11. book moves

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: book lung (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “book lung.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/book_lung. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.