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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A salamander.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tailed, as an amphibian; not anurous, as a batrachian; retaining the tail throughout life, as a salamander, newt, or eft; belonging to the Urodela.
  • noun Any member of the Urodela.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the Urodela.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any caudate amphibian

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun amphibians that resemble lizards

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Ūrodēla, former order name : uro– + Greek dēlos, visible; see psychedelic.]

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