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单词 dipnoous
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dipnoousadj.

/ˈdɪpnəʊəs/
Forms: Also erron. dipnous.
Etymology: < modern Latin dipnous (in plural Dipnoi, an order of Fishes), < Greek δίπνοος with two breathing apertures, < δι- twice + πνοή breathing, breath.
1. Zoology. Having both gills and lungs, as a dipnoan fish.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > [adjective] > belonging to Dipnoi
dipnoid1878
dipnoous1881
dipnoan1886
dipneustal1892
1881 Günther in Encycl. Brit. XII. 686/1 The relations of the chimaeras to the Ganoid, and more especially to the Dipnoous type.
1881 Günther in Encycl. Brit. XII. 686/2 It is impossible to decide..whether the Fossil should be referred to the Holocephalous or the Dipnoous type.
2. Pathology. Of a wound: ‘Having two openings for the entrance of air or other matters’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1883).
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1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) Dipnous, an epithet for wounds which are perforated quite through, and admit the air at both ends.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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