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dipneumonous

dipneumonous adjective: having two lungs.

Adjective

dipneumonous (not comparable)

  1. Having two lungs.
    • We must remember, finally, that the dipneumonous spiders can live for many months, that is to say, during the whole season of physiological activity, without food.1878, Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 200
    • Morin (1888) * states that the lungs of the dipneumonous spiders arise in form of infoldings at the bases of the two appendages of the second abdominal segment.1894, Orville L Simmons, XXX.—Development of the lungs of spiders, page n7

Origin of dipneumonous

From di- + pneumon- + -ous.

Questions about dipneumonous

What does dipneumonous mean?
Dipneumonous means having two lungs.
What part of speech is dipneumonous?
Dipneumonous is an adjective.

Words near dipneumonous in the dictionary

  1. dipnetter
  2. dipnetters
  3. dipnetting
  4. dipneumone
  5. dipneumones
  6. dipneumonous
  7. dipnictide
  8. dipnictides
  9. dipnoan
  10. dipnoans
  11. dipnoid

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