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RESPIRATORY ORGAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any organ involved in the process of respiration

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("respiratory organ" is a kind of...):

internal organ; viscus (a main organ that is situated inside the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "respiratory organ"):

branchia; gill (respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water)

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

book lung (organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book)

Holonyms ("respiratory organ" is a part of...):

respiratory system; systema respiratorium (the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing)

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