amphibian

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμφίβιον (amphíbion), from ἀμφί (amphí, “of both kinds”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăm'fĭb"ĭ-ən, IPA^(key): /æmˈfɪbɪən/

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Adjective

amphibian (comparative more amphibian, superlative most amphibian)

1. Of or relating to the amphibians Amphibia.
2. Capable of operating on both land and water amphibious.
3. (obsolete) Having two natures.

Derived terms

• amphibian helicopter
• amphibian species
• amphibian tank

Noun

amphibian (plural amphibians)

1. An animal of the Amphibia; any four-legged vertebrate that does not have amniotic eggs, living both on land and in water.
2. A vehicle which can operate on land and water. See Wikipedia article on "Amphibious aircraft"

Hypernyms

• Animalia
• Chordata
• Tetrapoda

Hyponyms

• Batrachia
• batrachian
• batrachofauna
• Labyrinthodontia (extinct)
• Lepospondyli (extinct)
• Lissamphibia

  Anura

  Caudata

  Gymnophiona

• Salientia

Related terms

• Amphibia
• amphibiology
• amphibiotic
• amphibious
• amphibius

Translations

vertebrate

• Albanian: amfib (sq) m
• Armenian: երկկենցաղ (hy) (erkkencʿał)
• Azeri: amfibiya
• Belarusian: земнаво́днае n (zjemnavódnaje), амфі́бія f (amfíbija)
• Bulgarian: земново́дно (bg) n (zemnovódno)
• Catalan: amfibi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩棲動物 (zh), 两栖动物 (zh) (liǎngqīdòngwù)

• Czech: obojživelník (cs) m
• Danish: amfibium (da) n
• Dutch: amfibie (nl) m
• Estonian: kahepaikne
• Finnish: sammakkoeläin
• French: amphibien (fr) m
• Galician: anfibio (gl) m
• Georgian: ამფიბია (ampibia)
• German: Amphibie (de) f, Amphibium (de) n, Lurch (de) m
• Greek: αμφίβιο (el) n (amfívio)
• Hawaiian: pepeʻekua
• Hebrew: דו־חי‎ m (du-khay)
• Hungarian: kétéltű (hu)
• Icelandic: froskdýr (is) n
• Ido: amfibio (io)
• Indonesian: amfibia
• Irish: amfaibiach m, débheathach m
• Italian: anfibio (it) m
• Japanese: 両生 (りょうせい, ryōsei), 両生類 (ja) (りょうせいるい, ryōseirui)
• Kazakh: амфибия (amfïbïya), қосмекенді (qosmekendi)
• Khmer: ថលជលិកសត្វ (tʰa’la’chea’lik sat)
• Korean: 양서류 (ko) (yangseoryu) (兩棲類 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: амфибия (ky) (amfibiya)
• Latvian: abinieks m, amfībija f
• Lithuanian: varliagyvis m, amfibija (lt) f
• Lojban: banfi
• Macedonian: водо́земец m (vodózemec)
• Malay: binatang dualam, binatang amfibia, haiwan dualam, haiwan amfibia
• Maori: ikawhenua
• Navajo: biyáázh tsʼǫʼasánígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amfibium (no) n

  Nynorsk: amfibium n

• Polish: płaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: anfíbio (pt) m
• Russian: земново́дное (ru) n (zemnovódnoje), амфи́бия (ru) f (amfíbija)
• Scottish Gaelic: muir-thìreach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водоземац m, амфибија f

  Roman: vodozemac m, amfibija (sh) f

• Slovak: obojživelník (sk) m
• Slovene: dvoživka (sl) f
• Spanish: anfibio (es) m
• Swedish: amfibie (sv)
• Tagalog: ampibiyo
• Telugu: ఉభయచరము (te) (ubhayacaramu)
• Turkish: iki yaşamlı, amfibi (tr)
• Ukrainian: земново́дне n (zemnovódne), амфі́бія (uk) f (amfíbija)
• Uzbek: amfibiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: lưỡng cư
• Volapük: mafib (vo)
• West Frisian: amfiby c

vehicle

• Finnish: amfibi, amfibioajoneuvo

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• amphibole
• amphibology
• amphiboly
• batrachology
• herpetology (amphibiology, reptiliology)