| 单词 | water-breathing |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater-breathing water-breathing adj. able to respire when submerged in water; characterized by this ability; contrasted with air-breathing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > aquatic aquatic1642 water-breathing1827 nektonic1896 rheophile1934 rheophilic1939 rheophilous1941 1827 R. T. Gore tr. C. G. Carus Introd. Compar. Anat. Animals I. i. ii. 53 The nervous substance in Animals without Brain or Spinal Marrow..is extremely soft; and more peculiarly so in the water-breathing [Ger. Wasserathmenden] Animals of that description. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) vi. 158 The Dipnoi (Lung-fish) are interesting as being fishes which show how a transition from water-breathing to air-breathing life may have taken place. 2006 A. L. Val et al. Physiol. Trop. Fishes vi. 226 Many water-breathing species of tropical fish have evolved adaptations to enhance skimming of the O2-rich surface layers of the water. < as lemmas |
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