01 n. An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
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An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.(Anat.)“My lungs began to crow like chanticleer.” — Shak.
Phrases & compounds
Lung fever —
pneumonia.
Lung flower —
a species of gentian (Gentian Pneumonanthe).
Lung lichen —
tree lungwort. See under Lungwort.
Lung sac —
one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.