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Definition of Giant salamander
1. Noun. Large (up to more than three feet) edible salamander of Asia.
Generic synonyms: Salamander
Group relationships: Genus Megalobatrachus, Megalobatrachus
Definition of Giant salamander
1. Noun. Any of the large amphibians found in the family ''Cryptobranchus'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giant Salamander
Literary usage of Giant salamander
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"This fossil species, which was fully as large as the existing giant salamander,
together with a smaller extinct species from lower Miocene strata near Bonn, ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"The giant salamander of Japan differs from its American relation in one essential
point only, namely, by the absence of gill-openings and of the ..."
3. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"To his very interesting article, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Giant
Salamander, in the Proceedings of the Department of Natural History, ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Int Studio 67:176-85 Ja '16 Salamanders giant salamander at home. Home Prog 6:73-4
О '16 giant salamander of Japan. RW Shufeldt. il Sei Am S 82:156 S 2 '16 ..."
5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"... sur les premières phases (le la formation des corps jaune« chez certains reptiles.
Reese, Albert M. 258. The sexual i-lements of the giant salamander ..."
6. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"The latter circumstances likewise prove that the " kingdom of the giant salamander,"
by no means embraces all Japan, but that the animal occurs somewhat ..."
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