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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; caeciliansplay

    Synonyms:

    amphibia; class Amphibia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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