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land-salamander

land-salamander noun: a salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.

Noun

land-salamander (plural land-salamanders)

  1. A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
    • They think they can turn him into something rich and strange —turn him in a single generation—even as certain ingenious experimentalists turned what Nature meant for a land-salamander into a water-salamander, with new ruddertail and gills instead of lungs and feet suppressed, by feeding him with...1888, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts
  2. A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.

Forms of land-salamander

pluralland-salamanders
alternative formland salamander

Origin of land-salamander

From land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.

Questions about land-salamander

What does land-salamander mean?
Land-salamander means a salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
What part of speech is land-salamander?
Land-salamander is a noun.
What is the plural of land-salamander?
The plural of land-salamander is land-salamanders.

Words near land-salamander in the dictionary

  1. land-lover
  2. land-lovers
  3. land-mass
  4. land-masses
  5. land-poor
  6. land-salamander
  7. land-salamanders
  8. land-shark
  9. land-sharked
  10. land-sharking
  11. land-sharks

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