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mole salamander

mole salamander noun: a member of the salamander genus Ambystoma, especially Ambystoma talpoideum.

mole salamander: a member of the salamander genus Ambystoma, especially Ambystoma talpoideum
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Noun

mole salamander (plural mole salamanders)

  1. A member of the salamander genus Ambystoma, especially Ambystoma talpoideum.
    • The axolotl is a member of the Mole salamanders, a genus found only in North America, and one of a handful of species found only in the highland lakes of Mexico.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 15

Forms of mole salamander

pluralmole salamanders

Questions about mole salamander

What does mole salamander mean?
Mole salamander means a member of the salamander genus Ambystoma, especially Ambystoma talpoideum.
What part of speech is mole salamander?
Mole salamander is a noun.
What is the plural of mole salamander?
The plural of mole salamander is mole salamanders.

Words near mole salamander in the dictionary

  1. mole rat
  2. mole rats
  3. Mole River
  4. mole run
  5. mole runs
  6. mole salamander
  7. mole salamanders
  8. mole shrew
  9. mole shrews
  10. mole sieve
  11. mole sieves

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