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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Amphibian \Am*phib"i*an\ (-an), adjective (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Amphibian \Am*phib"i*an\, noun (Zo["o]l.) One of the Amphibia.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
amphibian
adjective: relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia [syn: {amphibious}]
noun
1: a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water [syn: {amphibious vehicle}]
2: an airplane designed to take off and land on water [syn: {amphibious aircraft}]
3: cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "amphibian": Reptilia, Surinam toad, aeroboat, air, airy nothing, angiosperm, anguine, annual, aquatic plant, batrachian, biennial, boat seaplane, bubble, bullfrog, caecilian, clipper, colubriform, cosmopolite, crawling, creeping, croaker, crocodilian, cutting, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, eft, ephemeral, ether, evergreen, exotic, floatplane, flowering plant, flying boat, frog, froggy, fungus, gametophyte, grass frog, gymnosperm, hellbender, hoppytoad, hoptoad, hydrophyte, hydroplane, illusion, leopard frog, lizardlike, midwife toad, mist, monocot, monocotyl, mud puppy, newt, ophidian, paddock, perennial, phantom, pickerel frog, plant, polliwog, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, salamander, saurian, seaplane, seed plant, seedling, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, shadow, siren, slithering, smoke, snakelike, snaky, spermatophyte, spirit, sporophyte, spring frog, tadpole, thallophyte, thin air, toad, toadish, tree frog, tree toad, triennial, vapor, vascular plant, vegetable, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, water dog, waterplane, weed, wood frog
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