| NOUN | animal | lungfish | air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins |
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| Sounds | lah'ngfih.sh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | 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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| Member of | Dipnoi, subclass Dipnoi | bony fishes of the southern hemisphere that breathe by a modified air bladder as well as gills |
| Narrower | ceratodus | Extinct lungfish |
| Broader | bony fish | Any fish of the class Osteichthyes |
| Spanish | dipnoi | |
| Catalan | dipnou | |
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