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单词 pulmoniferous
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pulmoniferousadj.

Brit. /ˌpʌlməˈnɪfərəs/, /ˌpʊlməˈnɪfərəs/, U.S. /ˌpəlməˈnɪfərəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pulmōn- , pulmō , -iferous comb. form.
Etymology: < classical Latin pulmōn-, pulmō lung (see pulme n.) + -iferous comb. form. Compare scientific Latin Pulmonifera, former group name for the pulmonate gastropods ( J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals (1828) 255).
Zoology.
1. = pulmonate adj. Now rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > belonging to order Pulmonifera
pulmonary1833
pulmoniferous1834
pulmobranchiate1841
pulmonate1853
1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 338 This bulb..is always a prominent structure in the earlier stages of the embryonic heart in pulmoniferous Vertebrata.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 621/2 The pulmoniferous Mollusca.
1858 H. Adams & A. Adams Genera Recent Mollusca I. 67 In the Pulmoniferous tribes the place of the gills is occupied by an air-sac mined with a vascular net-work.
1884 Science Aug. 160/1 The layer of broken stone..contained numerous shells belonging to several species of pulmoniferous gasteropods.
1942 Amer. Midland Naturalist 27 80 The influence of coniferous versus deciduous woodlands on the presence of pulmoniferous mollusks.
2. Of a part of the body: containing or bearing a lung or similar respiratory organ (in quot., a book lung of an arachnid). Obsolete. rare.
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1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The pulmoniferous somites of an arachnidan.

Derivatives

pulmonifer n. Obsolete rare a pulmonate gastropod.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pulmonifer, a pulmonate gastropod, as a snail.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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