Lung

n.

1.

(Anat.) An organ for aërial respiration; - commonly in the plural. My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. - Shak. Lung fever (Med.) pneumonia. Lung flower (Bot.) a species of gentian (Gentian Pneumonanthe). Lung lichen (Bot.) tree lungwort. See under Lungwort. Lung sac (Zool.) one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.

Noun

1.

lung - either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood

abdomen, anus, appendix, bellows, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, colon, ctenidia, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, foregut, giblets, gills, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, lights, liver, liver and lights, lungs, midgut, perineum, pump, pylorus, rectum, small intestine, spleen, stomach, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

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