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Look up: amphibian

  1. Amphibian
    (pronounced am-FIB-ee-in) Amphibians (meaning 'double life') are vertebrate animals that live in the water during their early life (breathing through gills), but usually live on land as adults (and breathe with lungs). There are three groups (orders) of living amphibians: newts and salamanders (urod...
    Found on http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject

  2. amphibian
    [n] - a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water 2. [n] - an airplane designed to take off and land on water 3. [n] - cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Amphibian
    [pronounce: am-fib-ee-an] Vertebrate with moist skin (e.g. frog)
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20442

  4. Amphibian
    An aeroplane designed for taking off from and alighting on both land and water. Examples: Supermarine Walrus, Grumman Goose, Consolidated Canso.
    Found on http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/glossary

  5. amphibian
    aircraft capable of alighting on land or water Category: Transport • an aircraft capable of taking off from and alighting on either land or water. Category: Transport
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Amphibian
    Am·phib'i·an (-an) adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/72

  7. Amphibian
    Am·phib'i·an noun (Zoology) One of the Amphibia.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/72

  8. amphibian
    <zoology> Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles. ... <zoology> One of the Amphibia. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. amphibian
    noun cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. amphibian
    amphibious aircraft noun an airplane designed to take off and land on water
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. amphibian
    noun a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  12. Amphibian
    • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles. • (n.) One of the Amphibia.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. amphibian
    any member of the class Amphibia, vertebrates distinguished by their ability to exploit both aquatic and terrestrial habitats. They include the frogs ... [33 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/64

  14. amphibian
    amphibian A cold-blooded vertebrate that spends some time on land but must breed and develop into an adult in water. Frogs, salamanders, and toads are amphibians. —Word Info image © Copyright, 2006.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  15. Amphibian
    Group of vertebrate animals that can inhabit both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. This group of animals consists of frogs, newts, and salamanders. These organisms live at the land/water interface and spend most of their life in water. Descended from fish and ancestors to reptiles.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  16. amphibian
    amphibian, in aviation: see seaplane.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09102

  17. amphibian
    amphibian, in zoology, cold-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Amphibia. There are three living orders of amphibians: the frogs and toads (order Anura, or Salientia), the salamanders and newts (order Urodela, or Caudata), and the caecilians, or limbless amphibians (order Apoda, or Gymnophiona), ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08037

  18. amphibian
    Click images to enlargeMember of the vertebrate class Amphibia, which generally spend their larval (tadpole) stage in fresh water, transferring to land at maturity (after metamorphosis) and generally returning to water to breed. Like fish and reptiles, they continue to grow throughout life, and cannot maintain a temperatu...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  19. Amphibian
    an animal belonging to the vertebrate class Amphibia, including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians. Most species in this class have an aquatic immature stage and are terrestrial or partially terrestrial as adults.
    Found on http://www.kingsnake.com/articles/Glossa

  20. Amphibian
    describes animals that generally transition from water to land in their development, i.e. from tadpoles to frogs.
    Found on http://crazycreatures.org/glossary/

  21. amphibian
    Member of the class amphibia. Amphibians are characterized by having two distictive life stages. An aquatic larval stage as a tadpole, and an adult, often terrestial, stage. Amphibians also have porous un-scaled skin.
    Found on http://www.coastalplainsreptiles.com/glo

  22. Amphibian
    `Amphibians` (class `Amphibia`, from Amphi- meaning "on both sides" and -bios meaning "life"), are a class of vertebrate animals including animals such as frogs, caecilians, and salamanders. They are characterized as non-amniote ectothermic (or cold-blooded) tetrapods. Most Amphi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian



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