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land-salamanders

land-salamanders is the plural of land-salamander.

Meaning of land-salamander

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.

Questions about land-salamanders

What is land-salamanders the plural of?
Land-salamanders is the plural of land-salamander.

Words near land-salamanders in the dictionary

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

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