Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In popular language, animals living both on land and in the water; those which voluntarily and habitually enter that element, though not able to breathe under water, such as frogs, turtles, crocodiles, seals, walruses, otters, beavers, hippopotami, etc.
- [capitalized] In zoöl., a name variously used.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) One of the classes of vertebrates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
amphibian .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians
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Examples
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Frogs and salamanders constitute another lower class, called the amphibia, whose members are gilled during the earlier stages of development.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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Byord maintained the usual small-boy zoo of bugs and amphibia.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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Endemic amphibia species are also distributed all along the Apennine Mountains and include Salamandrina terdigitata, Triturus italicus, Rana italica, and Salamandra gigliolii.
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Of the reptiles and amphibia, python Python molurus is vulnerable and a number of endemic species are likely to be threatened.
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Endemic amphibia and reptile species and a large number of threatened butterfly species are also associated with certain parts of the ecoregion.
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So we start, in biology, with single celled, then microscopic organisms, then fish, amphibia, with tails, mammals with tails, until we reach the anthropoid stage.
A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi 2007
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So we start, in biology, with single celled, then microscopic organisms, then fish, amphibia, with tails, mammals with tails, until we reach the anthropoid stage.
Printing: A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi 2007
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So we start, in biology, with single celled, then microscopic organisms, then fish, amphibia, with tails, mammals with tails, until we reach the anthropoid stage.
A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi 2007
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In the Triton, as with most amphibia, the lens of the eye arises as a sequel to the optic cup and its size depends strictly on it.
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Not that adequate hands prove effective intelli - gence; on Earth, not only simians but a number of reptiles and amphibia boast as much, even if man has the best, and man's apish ancestors were as well-equipped in this respect as we are today.
Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964
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