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urodele

urodele noun: any caudate amphibian.

Noun

urodele (plural urodeles)

  1. Any caudate amphibian.
    • Although courtship and other mating behaviors of many urodele amphibians in the laboratory have been described in great detail (Arnold, 1977; Halliday and Verrell, 1986; Verrell, 1989), little is known about such behavior in natural populations (MacMahon, 1964; Lynch and Wallace, 1987).1989 December 27, Fredric J. Janzen; Edmund D. Brodie, III, “Tall Tails and Sexy Males: Sexual Behavior of Rough-Skinned Newts (Taricha granulosa) in a Natural Breeding Pond”, in Copeia, volume 1989...

Forms of urodele

pluralurodeles

Origin of urodele

From Latin Urodela.

Questions about urodele

What does urodele mean?
Urodele means any caudate amphibian.
What part of speech is urodele?
Urodele is a noun.
What is the plural of urodele?
The plural of urodele is urodeles.

Words near urodele in the dictionary

  1. urocysts
  2. urodaeum
  3. urodea
  4. urodelan
  5. urodelans
  6. urodele
  7. urodeles
  8. urodelian
  9. urodelians
  10. urodelous
  11. urodermal

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