WordNet
air-breathing
adj. deriving oxygen from the air; "he studied respiration in marine air-breathing vertebrates"; "large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils"
Usage examples of "air-breathing".
Then the booster fell away, wings deployed as the missile nosed over into horizontal flight only meters above the surface, and the missile's air-breathing gas turbine switched on.
What brought him on his annual pilgrimage to these waters was the thrill of the hissing reel and the running line, the tension of the bowed rod, and the sheer excitement of the contest between air-breathing man and monstrously strong fighting fish.
Smollett, the respiratory system in your body and in the bodies of all air-breathing creatures on Earth is controlled by certain metal-containing enzymes, I am taught.