air-breather

American  

[air-bree-ther] / ˈɛərˌbri ðər /

Or airbreather

noun

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

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air-breather

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

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.

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