Definitions for lungfish

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lungfish lung·fish

Spelling: [luhng-fish]

IPA: /ˈlʌŋˌfɪʃ/

Lungfish is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in lungfish (fghilnsu).

Definitions for lungfish

noun

1. any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).

Origin of lungfish

First recorded in 1880-85; lung + fish

Examples for lungfish

In certain swampy regions these lungfish swim freely in the water of the marshes.

In this Silurian time certain of these lungfish were perhaps trapped in the basin in the marsh by the uplifting of the border.

His purpose was the study of the wonderful Australian fauna, the oviparous mammals, marsupials, and ceratodus (lungfish).

The lungfish have a curious habit which keeps them over the dry season.

The light from the star that died when the meteor was created fell on Earth before the first lungfish ventured from the sea.