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Definition of Air-breathing
1. Adjective. Deriving oxygen from the air. "Large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air-breathing
Literary usage of Air-breathing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Diagram of the vascular system in which WC have Veins acting as the embryo-ofan
air-breathing Craniate. , ° . A. dorsal aorta and auricle; Ab. aortic arches ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"SELF FERTILIZATION IN THE air-breathing POND SNAILS. HAROLD SELLERS COLTON,
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. The author has already shown that under certain ..."
3. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"Indian Mound. —Gravel Terraces.—Pittsburg Fire.—Journey to Greensburg.—Scenery
like England.— Oregon War Question.—Fossil Foot-prints of air-breathing ..."
4. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"... CHAPTER XXXVI I TIME AND THE FIRST air-breathing ANIMALS of the Term Silurian.
— The term Silurian was proposed •eat English geologist, Murchison, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1886)
"And if now, under this influence, and that of drying pools and stagnant water,
many fish have acquired a partial air-breathing habit, this was far more ..."
6. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"In this case, one pair of antennary organs found in the latter is wanting in
insects, as in other air-breathing Arthropods, and the existence of the ..."
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