amphibians

Noun

amphibian (plural amphibians)

1. An animal of the Amphibia; any vertebrate that does not have amniotic eggs, typically living both on land and in water.

   Synonyms:

   amphibium

2. A vehicle which can operate on both land and water.
3. (uncommon) A person with two distinct characters, qualities or identities.
   • The prime exemplar of such a cast of mind must be Johann Ladislas Pyrker, a definite amphibian and ‘Austro-Hungarian’ in his literary and in his public life. The son of another estate bailiff in Transdanubia, Pyrker became successively a Hungarian official, an Austrian monk and at length a fairly...1994, R. J. W. Evans, “Austrian Identity in Hungarian Perspective: The Nineteenth Century”, in Ritchie Robertson, Edward Timms, editors, The Habsburg Legacy: National Identity in Historical...

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