lung
(noun) either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Lung (plural Lungs)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lung is the 4578th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7753 individuals. Lung is most common among Hispanic/Latino (47.07%), White (32.36%), and Asian/Pacific Islander (14.51%) individuals.
lung (plural lungs)
(anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
(plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc, to a place.
• (organ): (in the plural) bellows (informal or archaic), (in the plural) lights (of an animal, used as food)
Source: Wiktionary
Lung, n. Etym: [OE. lunge, AS. lunge, pl. lungen; akin to D. long, G. lunge, Icel. & Sw. lunga, Dan. lunge, all prob. from the root of E. light. See Light not heavy.] (Anat.)
Definition: An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural. My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. Shak.
Note: In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the esophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive saclike character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. See Respiration. Lung fever (Med.), pneumonia.
– Lung flower (Bot.), a species of gentian (G. Pneumonanthe).
РLung lichen (Bot.), tree lungwort. See under Lungwort. Lung sac (Zo̦l.), one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
