book lung

noun

Definitions

  1. A lamellate respiratory organ found in arachnids.

    • In addition to book lungs most spiders also have a second respiratory system in the form of paired tracheae; Atypus has none.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for book lung. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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