How To Use Air-breathing In A Sentence
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The 90-metre-long craft's secret weapon is a hydrogen fuel-powered rocket engine called SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) and was designed by the company's managing director Alan Bond.
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There is no hard-and-fast divide between water-breathing and air-breathing animals.
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he studied respiration in marine air-breathing vertebrates
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Equally efficacious might be the modern definition of the same creature as a "terrestrial, air-breathing, gastropodous mollusk.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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Remarkably, four species of fish are found in the lower pools near Iherir: Tilapia zillii being the commonest, with Barbus biscarensis, B. ablabes and the air-breathing mudfish Clarias anguillaris.
Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria
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Or you may take it the other way about, and start from the organisation of fishes; opercular bones are of no use to air-breathing animals, so they dwindle away, and are pressed into the service of the ear, although they are of little use in hearing (p. 46).
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils
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The multi-year project, called X - 43C, will expand the hypersonic flight envelope for air-breathing engines.
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Aquatic creature, air-breathing, cold-blooded, fish-eating, huge body, long neck, small head — did you know the word plesiosaur means ‘next to a lizard’?
The Boggart and The Monster
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Whales are mammals - warm-blooded, air-breathing creatures - but they spend their entire life in the ocean.
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It required the extraordinary acumen of the great Cuvier at once to recognize, when the first specimens [v. 03 p. 0069] of the _Gyrinus edulis_ or _Axolotl_ of Mexico were brought to him by Humboldt in the beginning of the 19th century, that these Batrachians were not really related to the Perennibranchiates, such as _Siren_ and _Proteus_, with which he was well acquainted, but represented the larval form of some air-breathing salamander.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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The 90-metre-long craft's secret weapon is a hydrogen fuel-powered rocket engine called SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) and was designed by the company's managing director Alan Bond.
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For example, the air-breathing lungfishes Protopterus amphibious and P. annectens can survive in a dormant state for over a year in cocoons underneath dried mud.
Biological diversity in the coastal forests of Eastern Africa
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The X - 43A is the first aircraft to reach hypersonic speeds using an air-breathing engine.
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Air-breathing in fish is, in fact, a primitive character of all osteichthyans.
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The X - 43A is an air-breathing supersonic ramjet, which ducts air directly from the atmosphere, mixing it with hydrogen before combustion.
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It provides buoyancy and this, for the bulk of the descendants of these air-breathing pioneers, became a more important faculty.
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Again, as Mr. Darwin says, "In the embryos of all air-breathing vertebrates, certain glands, called the corpora Wolffiana, correspond with and act like the kidneys of mature fishes;" and during the sixth month the whole body is covered very thickly with wool-like hair -- even the forehead and ears being closely coated; but it is, as Mr. Darwin observes, "a significant fact that the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are quite naked, like the inferior surfaces of all four extremities in most of the lower animals," including monkeys.
The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution