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  • noun Plural form of axolotl.

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Examples

  • There are creatures called axolotls, which are amphibians that remain tadpoles, so to speak, throughout life.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • Tanaka and her colleagues genetically engineered a type of salamander called axolotls to make a green fluorescent protein in all cells of the body.

    Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009

  • It's a brief, amazing story about the narrator who may be a boy, or a man, or an axolotl, becoming obsessed with axolotls in an aquarium.

    MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

  • And when one of the axolotls floated at the end of the tank closest to Cyclops, Cyclops would go into a frenzy.

    Archive 2009-06-28 Sean Craven 2009

  • Let's just say that when a reptile loves you, it ain't like mammal love, it's more like a sense that you're part of their territory and they own you. but over the next few years our collection expanded to include fire-belly toads, bearded dragons, a snake, leopard geckos, axolotls, etc, etc.

    Archive 2009-06-28 Sean Craven 2009

  • Let's just say that when a reptile loves you, it ain't like mammal love, it's more like a sense that you're part of their territory and they own you. but over the next few years our collection expanded to include fire-belly toads, bearded dragons, a snake, leopard geckos, axolotls, etc, etc.

    True Amphibian Crime Part One: The Origin Of Cyclops Sean Craven 2009

  • And when one of the axolotls floated at the end of the tank closest to Cyclops, Cyclops would go into a frenzy.

    True Amphibian Crime Part One: The Origin Of Cyclops Sean Craven 2009

  • The inter-montane lakes are a habitat for many endemic species of frogs and axolotls and constitute the center of diversity for the axolotls of Mexico.

    Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests 2007

  • He was entirely alone in the newt section where the great Japanese newt, the American hellbender, Andrias Scheuchzeri and a number of small amphibians, axolotls, eels, reptiles and frogs were exhibited.

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • Random cool links: This is a cool short story about axolotls, but I keep hearing Lovecraftian echoes or at least Kafka in it.

    sysadmins and The Man, axolotls and song titles badger 2002

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