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Amphibian

noun

A flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water. Synonym: amphibious vehicle.

An airplane designed to take off and land on water. Synonym: amphibious aircraft.

Cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form.

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia. Synonym: amphibious.

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"Amphibian" Quotes from Famous Books

... amazement seemed Sudden to ask us: "Is this also Man? This plunging, volant, land-amphibian What Plato mused and Paracelsus dreamed? Reply!" And piercing us with ancient scan, The shrill, primeval hawk gazed down — ...

— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

... amphibian monsters came lumbering forth upon dry land it became instantly apparent why the aero-subs had returned to the mother ships. For a few moments, out of the water, the amphibians were almost helpless, with practically no way ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various

... swim exceedingly well are not those who have taken courses in the theory of swimming at natatoriums, from professors of the amphibian art—they were just boys who jumped into the ol' swimmin' hole, and came home with shirts on wrong-side out and a tell-tale ...

— Love, Life & Work • Elbert Hubbard

... morning hymn does not say, as does the robin's, that life is cheerful, that another glorious day is dawning. It says, "Rest is over; another day of toil is here; come to work." It is monotonous as a frog chorus, but there is a merry thrill in the notes of the amphibian which are entirely wanting in the song. If it were not for the light-hearted tremolo of the chewink thrown in now and then, and the loud, cheery ditty of the summer yellow-bird, who begins soon after the pewee, ...

— A Bird-Lover in the West • Olive Thorne Miller

... of a mammal now differ very essentially from those of a reptile and of an amphibian because in their organization they represent the beginnings only of mammals, even as these represent only the beginnings of reptiles and amphibians, by how much more must they differ from those hypothetical single-celled amoebas which could as yet show no other characteristics ...

— At the Deathbed of Darwinism - A Series of Papers • Eberhard Dennert

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