Lung

Noun

 * 1) A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.

Synonyms

 * bellows, lights

Derived terms

 * aqualung
 * iron lung


 * leather-lunged
 * lungfish


 * lungful

Adjectives for Lung
prodigious; spongy; bursting; choked; skeleton; delicate; iron.

Verbs for Lung
collapse—; compress—; congest—; deflate —; enter—; envelop—; examine—; infect —; inflate—; perforate—; scar—; solidify —; spot—; traverse—; waste—; —decays; ——expands; —heaves; —labors; —retracts; '—rots; —shrivels.

Thesaurus
abdomen, anus, appendix, bellows, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, colon, ctenidia, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, foregut, giblets, gills, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, lights, liver, liver and lights, lungs, midgut, perineum, pump, pylorus, rectum, small intestine, spleen, stomach, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

Etymology
From, from lungen:, from , from. Cognate with West Frisian long:, Dutch long:, German Lunge:, Danish lunge:, Swedish lunga: and also Russian лёгкое: (lung), Greek undefined:. Compare Latin levis: and Old English leoht: (Modern English light:).

Translations

 * Arabic: رئة
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: ağciyər
 * Bambara: fogonfogon
 * Basque: birika
 * Catalan: pulmó
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: turin
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 肺臟, 肺脏,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ilocano: bara
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 肺臓,
 * Korean: 부아 (bua), 허파 (heopa)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: plaušas
 * Lithuanian: plaučiai
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian: (bel drob)
 * Maltese: pulmun
 * Maori: pūkahukahu
 * Meru:
 * Northern Sami: geahpis
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , plămâni
 * Romansch: lom
 * Russian: (pronounced: ljóxkoje)
 * Santali:
 * Serbian: pluće, pluća
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: pafu (nc 5/6)
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: hǫ́luną
 * Telugu: ఊపిరితిత్తి (oopirititti)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: lueg
 * West Frisian:

Adjective

 * 1) long

Etymology
From the adjective longus:.

Derived terms

 * lungement

Adjective

 * 1) long
 * Asta e o stradă foarte lungă!
 * This is a really long street!

Etymology
From the adjective longus:.

Derived terms

 * lungi

Related terms

 * alunga
 * prelung

Adjective

 * 1) long

Etymology
From longus:.