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Amphibia

noun

The class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians. Synonym: class Amphibia.

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"Amphibia" Quotes from Famous Books

... water they drink at Hillstoke. Sir, it is full of animalcula. Some of these cannot withstand the heat of the human stomach; but others can, for I tried them in mud artificially heated. [A giggle from Fanny Dover.] Thanks to your microscope, I have made sketches of several amphibia who live in those boys' stomachs, and irritate their membranes, and share their scanty nourishment, besides other injuries." ...

— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade

... unornithological eyes appears to be a happy mixture of a lark, pigeon and snipe (No. 710). Mr. MacLeay himself never imagined such an inosculating creature: I suppose it will turn out to be some well-known bird, although it has quite baffled me. I have taken some interesting Amphibia; a new Trigonocephalus beautifully connecting in its habits Crotalus and the Viperidae, and plenty of new (as far as my knowledge goes) saurians. As for one little toad, I hope it may be new, that it may be christened ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... am too old to make new acquaintances, I find myself isole". So, too, it is pretty certain that 'amphibious' was not yet English, when one writes (in 1618): "We are like those creatures called {Greek: amphibia}, who live in water or on land". {Greek: Zo:ologia}, the title of a book published in 1649, makes it clear that 'zoology' was not yet in our vocabulary, as {Greek: zo:ophyton} (Jackson) proves the same for 'zoophyte', and {Greek: polytheismos} (Gell) for 'polytheism'. One precaution, let ...

— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench

Words linked to "Amphibia" : class, order Salientia, pollywog, Labyrinthodonta, superorder Labyrinthodontia, order Stegocephalia, tadpole, order Caudata, order Batrachia, Caudata, amphibious, genus Hynerpeton, superorder Labyrinthodonta, Craniata, Labyrinthodontia, order Urodella, Stegocephalia, Salientia, Gymnophiona, Rorippa amphibia, Batrachia, order Anura, subphylum Vertebrata, genus Ichthyostega, class Amphibia, polliwog, amphibian, Anura, Urodella, subphylum Craniata, Vertebrata, Hynerpeton, order Gymnophiona