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Plural of salamander

regular plural

The plural of salamander is salamanders.

Forms of salamander

Singularsalamander /ˈsæləˌmændə/
Pluralsalamanders
Countablecountable and uncountable

Salamanders in a sentence

  • Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering.2006, Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice [Gas Service Technology; 3], 4th edition, Oxford...
  • The necessary fires alone — the salamanders and tinner's pots — had caused dozens of small blazes.2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, Vintage Books, page 192
  • The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.From the entry troglodyte
  • Some salamanders are both gillless and lungless as adults, relying solely on cutaneous respiration to breathe.From the entry gillless
  • Experts disagree over whether temnospondyls were ancestral to modern amphibians (frogs, salamanders and caecilians), or whether the whole group died out without leaving descendants.From the entry temnospondyl

Meaning of salamander

  1. noun A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
  2. noun A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.
  3. noun A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.

Full definition of salamander

Questions about the plural of salamander

What is the plural of salamander?
The plural of salamander is salamanders.
Is salamander countable?
Salamander is a countable and uncountable noun.

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