n. One of the two spongy or saccular organs, occupying the thorax or upper part of the body-cavity, which communicate with the pharynx through the trachea, and are the organs of respiration in air-breathing vertebrates.n. In entomology, one of the respiratory organs peculiar to those Arachnida whose tracheal system is modified into a number of lamellæ superimposed upon one another like the leaves of a book. They are also called pulmonary lamellæ and respiratory leaflets.n. In pulmonate mollusks, a modification of the integument subserving aërial respiration: more fully called external lung. Huxley.n. plural A bellows-blower; a chemist's servant.