land-salamander

短语

词形变化

land-salamanders 复数 land-salamanders

别名

land salamander

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.

    They think they can turn him into something rich and strange —turn him in a single generation—even as certain ingenious experimentalists turned what Nature meant for a land-salamander into a water-salamander, with new ruddertail and gills instead of lungs and feet suppressed, by feeding him with water animals in oxygenated water and cajoling his functions.

  2. 2.

    A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.

词源

From land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.

来源：wiktionary