RESPIRATORY ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory organ mean? 

• RESPIRATORY ORGAN (noun)
  The noun RESPIRATORY ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. any organ involved in the process of respiration

  Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPIRATORY ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any organ involved in the process of respiration

Classified under:

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)

 Context examples 

A respiratory organ found in aquatic animals that allows for the exchange of dissolved oxygen from water into the blood stream.

(Gill, NCI Thesaurus)