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adjective

Amphibious adj.

Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.

Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. "The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea."

Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. "Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage."

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"Amphibious" Quotes from Famous Books

... a puff of wind fell upon us, lashing the smooth water into ripples, whereupon the crew lost their wits with fright, and the lady mariners in the cook-boat set up a dismal howling; the ark, taking charge, crashed through the fence, her way carrying us to the very door of a frontier villa of an amphibious village. With amazing alacrity the crew tied us up to the door-post, and prepared to ...

— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

... that if the sailors were properly educated, such an amphibious corps would never have been formed, and some of the most atrocious sinecures ever tolerated would consequently not ...

— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli

... always likes to get his shops as near as possible to the sea—the highway of the "prahus" which bring him the products of the neighbouring rivers and islands. In time, no doubt, the Sandakan hills will be used to reclaim more land from the sea, and the town will cease to be an amphibious one. In the East there are, from a sanitary point of view, some points of advantage in having a tide-way passing under the houses. I should add that Sandakan is a creation of the Company's and not a native town taken over by them. When Mr. PRYER first ...

— British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo • W. H. Treacher

... enthusiasm in obtaining a charter is not difficult to understand. That amphibious colony, consisting of mainland, islands, and a large body of water, was inhabited by "poor despised peasants," as Governor Brenton described them, "living remote in the woods" and subject to the "envious and subtle contrivances of our neighbour colonies ...

— The Fathers of New England - A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths • Charles M. Andrews

... you, but not to the nation; some lucky individual will find the money and circulate it. But if you drop it into the sea, it is lost not only to you, but to the nation, indeed to the world itself, for ever,— of course taking for granted that our amphibious divers don't fish it ...

— Battles with the Sea • R.M. Ballantyne

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