Crossword-Solution: LUNGFISH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lungfish | n. | Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LUNGFISH | anagram | FLUSHING |
We have 10 clues for the answer “LUNGFISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BARRAMUNDA | 1 answer |
| Dipnoan. | 1 answer |
| Freshwater creature that breathes air | 1 answer |
| QUEENSLAND river fish | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN freshwater fish | 4 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN fish, large | 4 answers |
| AFRICAN freshwater fish | 5 answers |
| SOUTH American fish | 14 answers |
| African fish | 14 answers |
| Australian fish | 46 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with LUNGFISH (5)
The light from the star that died when the meteor was created fell on Earth before the first lungfish ventured from the sea.
Among these fishes were some which bear a great resemblance to a few found in South America, in Africa and Australia to-day, and which we know as lungfish.
The swim-bladder which we have just described in other fishes is, with this lungfish, peculiarly spongy in its walls, presenting a large surface full of blood vessels which absorb the air on the inside of the bladder.
This assures the zoölogist that the origin of the lungs in the higher animals is found in the swim-bladder of the so-called lungfish.
Suffice it to say that the scientist now believes that out of the lungfish of the Devonian came the amphibians of the Carboniferous period.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Onion.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1966–2007).