Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several long slender salamanders of the genus Amphiuma of the southeast United States that in their adult stage have two pairs of very small nonfunctioning legs and breathe with lungs although they are aquatic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of tailed amphibians with both gills and lungs, and therefore capable of breathing in both air and water, typical of the family Amphiumidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
genus Amphiuma ofaquatic salamanders .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Mr. Spence succeeded in transporting a live specimen to London Zoo, where it became the subject of further research and was given the names pelagobatrachus hookeri, salamandrops maritimus, abranchus giganteus, amphiuma gigas and many others.
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Florida to the jungles of Asia to capture and study the big four of the salamander world a greater siren that breathes through gills, has two legs and can spin like a top; the two-toed amphiuma; the hellbender, with its flattened head and sagging skin the most hideous of the four; and a big, ferocious, battle-scarred beast called the denmaster.
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