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单词 pneumonophorous
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pneumonophorousadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pneumono- comb. form, -phorous comb. form.
Etymology: < pneumono- comb. form + -phorous comb. form. Compare scientific Latin Pneumonophora, name of a former group of holothurians (19th cent.). N.E.D. (1907) indicates the stress as pneumonˈophorous.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare.
Provided with lungs, or organs resembling lungs in function. (In quot., with reference to the respiratory trees present in most holothurians.)
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1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 148 The..ambulacral vessel in all the pneumonophorous Holothurioidea.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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