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IELTS BNC: 17256 COCA: 16433

amphibian

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
amphibian /æmˈfɪbijən/ noun
plural amphibians
amphibian
/æmˈfɪbijən/
noun
plural amphibians
Learner's definition of AMPHIBIAN
[count]
1 
: an animal (such as a frog or toad) that can live both on land and in water两栖动物
2 
: an airplane or vehicle that can be used both on land and water水陆两用飞机；水陆两用车
IELTS BNC: 17256 COCA: 16433

amphibian

noun

am·​phib·​i·​an am-ˈfi-bē-ən How to pronounce amphibian (audio)
1
: an amphibious organism
especially : any of a class (Amphibia) of cold-blooded vertebrates (such as frogs, toads, or salamanders) intermediate in many characters between fish and reptiles and having gilled aquatic larvae and air-breathing adults
Unlike reptiles, most amphibians possess a smooth, moist skin and lay their shell-less eggs in water or wet places. Jeffrey P. Cohn
2
: an amphibious vehicle
especially : an airplane designed to take off from and land on either land or water
amphibian adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The axolotl, squishy mystery of an amphibian, lives beneath the surface of the water and its external gills crown its face like the headdress of an ancient warrior. BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022 The amphibian is able to dodge his pursuer by cleverly hiding in a snail shell until the snake gives up the hunt. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2022 Nombre de Dios streamside frog, an amphibian that suffers from logging and deforestation related to agriculture. Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 31 May 2022 The concept of victimhood is to Bran as the concept of a glacier is to a jungle-dwelling amphibian. New York Times, 17 May 2022 Finding an amphibian that was undetected for so long was valuable to scientists studying its habitat changes. Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022 But when an amphibian gets run over by a car, the death usually goes unnoticed. Joanna Lentini, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022 The good feelings stretch back to the Aztecs, who named the amphibian after Xolotl, the god of monsters. Sarah E. Needleman And Salvador Rodriguez, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022 The Danish researchers set up three air filters for 30 hours at a time and were able to identify 49 vertebrates, including 30 mammals, 13 birds, four fish, one amphibian, and one reptile. Eric Niiler, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

New Latin Amphibia, taxon including frogs and salamanders (from neuter plural of amphibius amphibious) + -an entry 1

Note: As a taxon Amphibia was used as a class name already by linnaeus (Systema naturae, 10. editio, 1758, p. 196 et passim), but in a sense that included both amphibians and some reptiles. Limitation of the taxon to approximately its current meaning dates from Thomas Gray's "A Synopsis of the Genera of Reptiles and Amphibia" (Annals of Philosophy, new series vol. 10, July-December, 1825, pp.193-217) according to Darrel R. Frost, et al., "The Amphibian Tree of Life," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 297 (2006), p. 355. The use of both English amphibian and Latin amphibius with varying gender and number to refer to animals living on both land and sea (and in figurative senses) can be found much earlier.

First Known Use

1749, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of amphibian was in 1749
IELTS BNC: 17256 COCA: 16433

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