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  • noun Plural form of salamander.

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  • One genus and one genus alone, Speleomantes, the cave salamanders, is present in Europe.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • A novel antipredator mechanism in salamanders: rolling escape in Hydromantes platycephalus.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • It is a very good time to be interested in salamanders.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • There were some strange-looking animals called salamanders; Professor Lightning had cut their tails off and they'd grown new tails.

    Charley de Milo Laurence Mark Janifer AKA Larry M. Harris 1957

  • 'Those who dwell in the flames are called salamanders, nor do these spirits wish for any other home, as they play merrily and fearlessly among the sparkling fires.

    Undine Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu��e 1918

  • Saying the salamanders were a rare species living in the area, Venerable Jiyul and environmentalists demanded that the tunnel project be scrapped.

    The Buddhist Channel 2009

  • 119 WBY, in a note to FFT (1888), refers to salamanders as elemental fire spirits, citing Paracelsus (P&I 233 nn.35, 35b).

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • 119 WBY, in a note to FFT (1888), refers to salamanders as elemental fire spirits, citing Paracelsus (P&I 233 nn.35, 35b).

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • 119 WBY, in a note to FFT (1888), refers to salamanders as elemental fire spirits, citing Paracelsus (P&I 233 nn.35, 35b).

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • 119 WBY, in a note to FFT (1888), refers to salamanders as elemental fire spirits, citing Paracelsus (P&I 233 nn.35, 35b).

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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