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AMPHIBIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians
Synonyms:
amphibia; class Amphibia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("amphibia" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "amphibia"):
amphibian (cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form)
genus Hynerpeton; Hynerpeton (earliest fossil amphibian ever found; of the Devonian; found in Pennsylvania)
genus Ichthyostega (second earliest fossil amphibian ever found; of the Devonian; found in Greenland)
Caudata; order Caudata; order Urodella; Urodella (salamanders; newts; congo snakes)
Anura; Batrachia; order Anura; order Batrachia; order Salientia; Salientia (frogs, toads, tree toads)
Gymnophiona; order Gymnophiona (an order of amphibians including caecilians)
Labyrinthodonta; Labyrinthodontia; superorder Labyrinthodonta; superorder Labyrinthodontia (extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic)
order Stegocephalia; Stegocephalia (in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia)
polliwog; pollywog; tadpole (a larval frog or toad)
Holonyms ("amphibia" is a member of...):
Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)
Derivation:
amphibious (relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia)
