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lungfish (iou) and wildflysch (iou)


lungfish (iou)



lungfish noun. , (usu.) same. L19.
[from LUNG noun + FISH noun1.]
A fish able to breathe air using primitive lungs, a dipnoan; esp. any of the extant genera Lepidosiren of S. America, Protopterus of Africa, and Neoceratodus of Australia, having long thick bodies and filamentous fins, and living in shallow fresh water or swamps.
QUEENSLAND lungfish.

wildflysch (iou)



wildflysch noun. Also Wildflysch. E20.
[German, from wild wild, rugged + Swiss German FLYSCH.]
Geology. Flysch containing large, irregularly distributed blocks and occupying beds that are distorted.