RESPIRATORY ORGAN
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)
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)
