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- n a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water
- n an airplane designed to take off and land on water
- n cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form
- a relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia
- But as he stares into the spilled amphibian guts he becomes overwhelmed by a dark premonition: "I felt like I was looking into the futureand the future looked pretty messed up.
- Michael Watters, expert on amphibian design for Glenn Martin.
- Other fauna finds include a legless amphibian near Goa, India; 11 new species of plants and animals in central Vietnam's tropical "green" corridor; a new monkey in Uganda; a sucker .