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airbreathing

a. 1 (context aeronautics of an engine or missile English) Using the air from the atmosphere for combustion 2 (context of fish English) Which can breathe air for a short period of time; especially the airbreathing catfishes.

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Diverge, and traces of a missing link lost in the sea that enlarged her form and stripped her fur and changed her contours -- and left cousins behind to revert to an earlier, more streamlined shape, but still airbreathing and milk-nursing.

Rather, it was a community known only to a few of the airbreathing peoples, a vast metropolis, more ancient than any town of the Ffolk.