land-salamander en · NOUN
Etymology
From land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.
Meanings
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A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
They think they can turn him into something rich and strange —turn him in a single generation—even as certain ingenious experimentalists turned what Nature meant for a land-salamander into a water-salamander, with new ruddertail and gills instead of lungs and feet suppressed, by feeding him with water animals in oxygenated water and cajoling his functions.
1888, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts
- A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| land salamander | alternative | lexicographic | |
| land-salamanders | Number=Plur | lexicographic |