Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several freshwater lobe-finned fishes of the group Dipnoi of Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike organ that enables them to breathe air, especially during drought conditions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dipnoan; any fish of the order Dipnoi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
air -breathing fish , of theclass Dipnoi , that have fourlimblike appendages instead offins
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
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Examples
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You stroll around like a Japanese movie-monster, crushing the city on your way to free the lungfish from the mind control device (setup like a giant transmission tower.)
Review: Psychonauts 2005
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One of the few living fish related to these ancient land-dwellers are air-breathers known as lungfish, which are found today in Africa, South America and Australia.
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Tetrapods are part of a larger groups called Sarcopterygii, which also includes several groups of lobe-finned fish, such as lungfish and the coelacanth.
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Other animals, such as lungfish and tortoises, burrow into the mud and estivate to survive.
Mission Of Honor Clancy, Tom 2002
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Tiktaalik's fin into the fin of a lungfish, meaning this appears to be far simpler of an evolutionary story than what would be required to transform
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A better example than the mudskipper would be the coelacanths, or lobe-fin fish which, along with lungfish, diverged about the same time as tetrapods (as supported by genetic evidence).
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Yet the lungfish and the “modern” fish are at the same distance from all nonfish groups.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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According to evolutionists, the group of “primitive” lungfish from central Africa has not undergone any evolution whatsoever during the last 350 million years.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Yet the lungfish and the “modern” fish are at the same distance from all nonfish groups.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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According to evolutionists, the group of “primitive” lungfish from central Africa has not undergone any evolution whatsoever during the last 350 million years.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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