land-salamander
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.
Noun
editland-salamander (plural land-salamanders)
- A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
- 1888, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts:
- 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.
- 1888, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts:
- A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.