pulmograde
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin pulmo (“a lung”) + -grade (“means of locomotion”).
Adjective
editpulmograde (not comparable)
- (zoology) Swimming by means of expansion and contraction.
- The medusae are pulmograde.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pulmograde”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)