land-salamander

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land-salamander

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From land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.

noun land-salamanders · land salamander

  1. 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 wat
  2. A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.

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@misc{land_salamander_2026,
  title = {land-salamander},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/land-salamander},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}