Lung

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Either of two spongy, saclike respiratory organs in most vertebrates, occupying the chest cavity together with the heart and functioning to remove carbon dioxide from the blood and provide it with oxygen.
  • n. A similar organ in some invertebrates, including spiders and terrestrial snails.
  • idiom. at the top of (one's) lungs As loudly as one's voice will allow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
  • Verb Form
    lungs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    lungement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    breather    lights    pulmonary    pulmonal    pulmonic    bellows    archaic    or    informal    italbrac   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sung    Young    among    bung    clung    dung    flung    fung    hung    overhung   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Liver    stomach    bladder    brain    tissue    intestine    organ    throat    gland    muscle