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amphibian (enc)

Amphibian

Noun1.amphibian - a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water
automotive vehicle, motor vehicle - a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails
marsh buggy, swamp buggy - an amphibious vehicle typically having four-wheel drive and a raised body
2.amphibian - an airplane designed to take off and land on water
aeroplane, 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 form
craniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
Amphibia, class Amphibia - frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians
Hynerpeton bassetti - fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania
Ichyostega - early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland
urodele, caudate - amphibians that resemble lizards
salamander - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed
anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog - any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
caecilian, blindworm - any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
labyrinthodont - an amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia
lateral line, lateral line organ - sense organs of fish and amphibians; believed to detect pressure changes in the water
Adj.1.amphibian - relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

 

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