Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An amphibious animal; one of the Amphibia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An amphibian.
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- noun archaic An
amphibian .
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Examples
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Thus is man that great and true amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not only like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds; for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible; whereof
Religio Medici 2007
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Similar cases have occurred in _Nasturtium amphibium_, _Brassica Rapa_, and _Passiflora quadrangularis_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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This amphibium has an eye which lies very deep in the body and is almost overgrown by the skin.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various
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These are recorded in systematic works as varieties, and are described under the names of _P. amphibium_ var. _natans_ Moench, and _P. amphibium_ var. _terrestre_ Leers or _P. amphibium_ var. _terrestris_ Moench.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The most curious and most suggestive instance of such an alternation is the case of the water-persicaria or _Polygonum amphibium_.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Polygonum amphibium (water-persicaria), var. aquaticum, Second Lake.
The Maine Woods 1858
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Our fashionable coat is an amphibium between barn-sack and drayman's doublet.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Our fashionable coat is an amphibium between barn-sack and drayman's doublet.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Thus is man that great and true amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not only like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds; for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible; whereof Moses seems to have left description, and of the other so obscurely, that some parts thereof are yet in controversy.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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Pedunculi dppojfttifolU, longitudini foliorutHf fpieaio-racemop, amphibium.
Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilivm secvndvm classes, ordines, genera, species cvm characteribvs et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe avctior et correctior cvrante Io. Andrea Mvrray .. Murray, Johann Andreas, 1740-1791 1784
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