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Definition of Lungfishes
1. lungfish [n] - See also: lungfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lungfishes
Literary usage of Lungfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"The sinus venosus, the auricle, and the conus are imperfectly divided in the
lungfishes, suggesting the condition in amphibia. ..."
2. Zoology: Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"THE lungfishes. In the lungfishes the development of the air bladder as a lung
is much more complete than in any of the ..."
3. Zoölogy, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"THE lungfishes. In the lungfishes the development of the air bladder as a lung
is much more complete than in any of the ..."
4. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"lungfishes were the next; so that the amphibians began along here also somewhere.
... Possibly the lungfishes tended thus strongly to become FIG. 75. ..."
5. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The lungfishes are at the present day represented only by three genera, with but
very few species, but they were formerly a very numerous group, ..."
6. The Story of the Fishes by James Newton Baskett (1899)
"lungfishes were the next; so that the amphibians began along here also somewhere.
... Possibly the lungfishes tended thus strongly to become FIG. 75. ..."