lungfish
noun
lungfish is a noun meaning “An air-breathing fish, of the class Dipnoi, that have four limblike appendages instead of fins” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-N-G-F-I-S-H and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lungfish is lungfishes.
What does lungfish mean?
noun
- 1
An air-breathing fish, of the class Dipnoi, that have four limblike appendages instead of fins
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lungfish?
Lungfish has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lungfish
- lungfishes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lungfish?
Lungfish appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lungfish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense air-breathing fish of the class Dipnoi:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dipneuste |
| German | Lungenfisch |
| Portuguese | dipnoico, peixe-pulmonado |
| Spanish | pez pulmonado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lungfish come from?
From lung + fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).