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dipnoan, a. and n. Zool.|ˈdɪpnəʊən|
[f. mod.L. Dipnoi (see dipnoous) + -an.]
A. adj. Belonging to the Dipnoi, a sub-class or order of fishes, having two kinds of respiratory organs, gills and lungs.
B. n. A fish belonging to this order.
1883Athenæum 7 Apr. 447/1 Prof. Huxley came to the conclusion that..to separate the elasmobranchs, ganoids, and dipnoans into a group, apart from and equivalent to the teleosteans, was inconsistent with the plainest anatomical relations of these fishes. 1886Ibid. 18 Dec. 830/2 A paper on the development..of the ovum in the dipnoan fishes. |