English > amphibian: 4 senses > noun 3, animal| Meaning | cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form. |
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| Member of | amphibia, class Amphibia | The class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water |
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| Parts | lateral line, lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians |
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| Narrower | Hynerpeton bassetti | fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs |
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| Ichyostega | Early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland |
| caecilian, blindworm | Any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona |
| frog, toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian, salientian | Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping |
| labyrinthodont | An amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia |
| salamander | Any of various typically terrestrial / terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed |
| urodele, caudate | amphibians that resemble lizards |
| Broader | vertebrate, craniate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
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| Spanish | amphibia, anfibio, anfibios |
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| Catalan | amfibi |
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| Adjectives | amphibian | relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia |
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