Definition of Amphibians

1. Noun. (plural of amphibian) ¹

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Definition of Amphibians

1. amphibian [n] - See also: amphibian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphibians

amphiarthroses
amphiarthrosis
amphiarthrotic
amphiaster
amphiasters
amphibamid
amphibamids
amphibaric
amphibia
amphibial
amphibian
amphibian family
amphibian genus
amphibian venoms
amphibianlike
amphibians (current term)
amphibiological
amphibiology
amphibiotic
amphibiotica
amphibious
amphibious aircraft
amphibious car
amphibious demonstration
amphibious landing
amphibious operation
amphibious vehicle
amphibiously
amphibiousness

Literary usage of Amphibians

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report (1913)
"REPTILES AND amphibians. Crystal Thompson and Helen Thompson. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. During the summer of 1912, 1he Museum of Zoology ..."

2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"A COLLECTION OF REPTILES AND amphibians FROM SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. ... There is no reason to believe that reptiles and amphibians are less ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"The amphibians.—Relatively, the amphibians reached their most declared supremacy in the ... The Permian amphibians were of much the same types as before, ..."

4. Animal Studies: A Text-book of Elementary Zoology for Use in High Schools by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1903)
"The modern amphibians are essentially fishes in their early life, but in developing legs and otherwise changing their bodily form they become adapted for a ..."

5. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF FISHES, amphibians, ... amphibians : Differences in structure and colour between the sexes — Vocal organs. ..."

6. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"amphibians : Differences in structure and colour between the sexes—Vocal organs. REPTILES : Chelonians—Crocodiles—Snakes, colours in some cases ..."

7. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"OUR COLLECTION OF amphibians. By RAYMOND L. DITMARS, CURATOR OF REPTILES. IN preparing this article the writer has had two objects in view: (i) to present a ..."

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