air-breathing
- a deriving oxygen from the air
he studied respiration in marine air-breathing vertebrates
large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils
- In less than half a minute Pudgy had pushed her calf, an air-breathing mammal, up to the surface to draw her first breath.
- Snark, winged, air-breathing and subtonic, will fly five to seven hours to target as opposed to 15 to 30 minutes for the intercontinental ballistic missiles still under development.
- The subsonic air-breathing missile was a sound concept before physicists found out how to fit a nuclear warhead into a ballistic missile.