Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The local name of the blind cave-salamander, Proteus anguinus, of Carniola, adopted as a common name. See cut at Proteus.
Wiktionary
- n. a cave-dwelling amphibian, Proteus anguinus of the genus Proteus, having external gills; it is found along the coast from northeastern Italy to Montenegro
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander (Proteus anguinus) with permanent external gills.
WordNet 3.0
- n. European aquatic salamander with permanent external gills that lives in caves
Examples
“In the caves of Slovenia, he encounters the peculiar creature known as the olm, a cave-dwelling blind salamander once believed to be a baby dragon.”
“The olm is a snake-like creature 25-30 cm long and weighing only up to 20 grams.”
“The blind salamander (Proteus anguinus), also known as the olm, has the longest lifespan of any amphibian, often living to over 70 in zoos, and with a predicted maximum age of over 100.”
“The olm is a Europe’s only cave adapted vertebrate, and has numerous adaptations for an underground life.”
“In the world of real life is freaky, check out the olm, which even has a name suited for a fantasy.”
“If this is correct it may be that the different White olm populations represent different species which resemble one another by convergent evolution, and which have partly or mostly fused as they have met up within the Dinaric karst system.”
“When salamanders invaded the Dinaric Karst: convergence, history, and reinvention of the troglobitic olm”
“Having said that, one of the most interesting contentions made recently about olms (Sket 1997) is that the different cave-dwelling olm populations may have evolved independently from different ancestral populations.”
“What might be the most fascinating fact concerning olms is the most poorly-known and least mentioned one: the 1986 discovery of a surface-dwelling olm, described in 1994 by Boris Sket and Jan Willem Arntzen.”
“Whatever, troglobitic olm populations must have evolved within the last 10,000 years or so, and presumably the specialised troglobitic morphology of living olms evolved during this time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘olm’.
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See cut under
A list of words with definitions directing us to "see cut under" (or "see cut at") another definition (with hilarity occasionally ensuing).
Compare compare-cut-under.spider, scorpion, spoonbill, spur, tooth, feather, gnat, beard, gyrate, astragal, jog, countercheck and 92 more...
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Assorted animals
red-handed howler, big bend slider, false smooth snake, nightcrawler, soybean cyst nema..., jaw worm, neglected worm li..., spiny-headed worm, thorny-headed worm, decorator crab, pleasing poison frog, red-eared slider ... and 129 more...
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 138 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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animalia
Creatures with interesting names/lives.
salamander, badger, varmint, wombat, skink, tortoise, pika, gnu, pangolin, porpoise, serval, walrus and 53 more...
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words I like
first list
auricomous, helliferocious, amphigory, harbinger, deus ex machina, zephyr, quixotic, vex, olm, cephalopod, entomology, faustian and 6 more...
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October List
sposh, jowlop, slampamp, spot rump, finikin, livedo, nidget, mulmul, mugient, olm, pawl, dapifer and 76 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for olm.
hernesheir Unusual amphibian of subterranean (caves) waters of Italy, Croatia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia. Feb 20, 2010
rolig In Slovenia this little beast is famous, because it lives in that country's famous caves, notably Postojna. Slovenes like to call it the "human fish" (človeška ribica) because its color reminds them of Caucasian human skin. Dec 1, 2007
patchouli Pronounced like "om" I presume... Sep 7, 2007
reesetee Eeewwwww! And yet strangely fascinating.... :-) Sep 6, 2007
trivet
Sep 5, 2007