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Definition of Book lung
1. Noun. Organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book.
Definition of Book lung
1. Noun. (zoology) A lamellate respiratory organ found in arachnids. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Lung
Literary usage of Book lung
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"Each leaf of the book- lung consists of a flattened, sac-like fold of the ...
THE TIPS OF TWO LEAVES OF A BOOK-LUNG 1,1, palisade of spines on dorsal ..."
2. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"See book lung. book lung (book' lung'). A respiratory organ composed of flat
sheets joined together like pages of a book, found in spiders. ..."
3. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"... as it were, growing into the body instead of growing ont, so that the interstices
between the lamellae then became the lamellae of the book-lung. ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"... Siren (th and Endurance Send for my 64 page illustrated book, Lung and Muscle
Culture the most Instructive treatise ever published on the vital subject ..."
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