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fire salamanders

fire salamanders is the plural of fire salamander.

Meaning of fire salamander

Noun

fire salamander (plural fire salamanders)

  1. A medium-sized black salamander with yellow spots (Salamandra salamandra), native to Europe, related to the tiger salamander.
    • Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 6

Questions about fire salamanders

What is fire salamanders the plural of?
Fire salamanders is the plural of fire salamander.

Words near fire salamanders in the dictionary

  1. fire rings
  2. fire roll
  3. fire rolls
  4. fire safety
  5. fire salamander
  6. fire salamanders
  7. fire sale
  8. fire sales
  9. fire scar
  10. fire scars
  11. fire science

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