air-breather

or air·breath·er

[ air-bree-ther ]

noun

1. an aircraft, missile, or submarine engine that requires air from the atmosphere for the combustion of its fuel.

Example Sentences

In the Insects, where this type of structure rises to its highest mechanical perfection, and where the animal is enabled to be not merely an air-breather, but a flier, the same system of lateral pores and internal air-tubes is adopted, and is so extended and ramified as to give a very perfect respiration.

From Project Gutenberg

Smiles among the Convair group might mean a promising static-test day for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, frowns among the North American missile monkeys might show a bad day for the Navaho intercontinental air-breather.

From Time Magazine Archive

The creature was evidently an air-breather, for it had no sooner completely cleared the fleet, which it did in about one minute, the distance travelled in that time being fully three miles, than it rose once more to the surface, remaining there for perhaps half a minute, evidently for the purpose of getting a fresh supply of air, when it again dived and was seen no more.”

From Project Gutenberg

While the baby mosquito is brought up in the water, he is an air-breather and comes to the top to breathe as do frogs and musk-rats and many other water creatures of a higher order.

From Project Gutenberg

We may assume that the reptile which left these prints on the ancient sands of the coal-measures was an air-breather, because its weight would not have been sufficient under water to have made impressions so deep and distinct.

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