HyperDic: lungfish

English > 1 sense of the word *lungfish*:
NOUN	animal	lungfish	air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins

lungfish > pronunciation
Sounds	lah'ngfih.sh
Rhymes	abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh...

English > *lungfish*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought.
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