Other Definitions amphibian (enc)
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Amphibian| Noun | 1. | amphibian - a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water | | | 2. | amphibian - an airplane designed to take off and land on wateraeroplane, airplane, plane - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" pontoon - a float supporting a seaplane | | | 3. | amphibian - cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult formcraniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium Hynerpeton bassetti - fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania Ichyostega - early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland salamander - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed caecilian, blindworm - any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | | | Adj. | 1. | amphibian - relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | |
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