dipneustescommon nounEtymologyexpandfrom Greek: having 2 respiratory systems.Definitions1. Plural of dipneust.expand2. Subclass of fish, endowed with both gills and lungs, constituting, in the phylogenetic classification, a taxon of rhipidistians opposed to tetrapods, and comprising many fossil species and few extant species.expandHyperonymRhipidistiaTranslationsenglish:lungfishes