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fire salamander en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A medium-sized black salamander with yellow spots (Salamandra salamandra), native to Europe, related to the tiger salamander.
    • Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack. 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 6:

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Translations (12)

de Feuersalamander (Salamandra salamandra) · it salamandra pezzata (Salamandra salamandra) · ru обыкнове́нная салама́ндра (Salamandra salamandra) · nl vuursalamander (Salamandra salamandra) · pl salamandra plamista (Salamandra salamandra) · grc σαλαμάνδρα (Salamandra salamandra) · lv plankumainā salamandra (Salamandra salamandra) · ru о́гненная салама́ндра (Salamandra salamandra) · ru пятни́стая салама́ндра (Salamandra salamandra) · ast sacavera (Salamandra salamandra) · sv eldsalamander (Salamandra salamandra) · ca salamandra comuna (Salamandra salamandra)