Antonyms for amphibian
æmˈfɪb i ənam·phib·ian

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1. amphibian, amphibious vehiclenoun

   a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water

   Synonyms:
   amphibious aircraft, amphibious vehicle

2. amphibian, amphibious aircraftnoun

   an airplane designed to take off and land on water

   Synonyms:
   amphibious aircraft, amphibious vehicle

3. amphibianadjective

   cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form

   Synonyms:
   amphibious aircraft, amphibious vehicle

4. amphibious, amphibianadjective

   relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

   Synonyms:
   amphibious

How to use amphibian in a sentence?

1. Kristine Bohmann:

   In just 40 samples, we detected 49 species spanning mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish, in the Rainforest House( at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark) we even detected the guppies in the pond, the two-toed sloth and the boa. When sampling air in just one outdoor site, we detected many of the animals with access to an outdoor enclosure in that part of Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark, for example kea, ostrich and rhino.

2. Professor Auke Ijspeert:

   It's a key animal from an evolutionary point of view, it's older than crocodiles and dinosaurs; it's an amphibian. So if you look at the modern salamander, its morphology and body shape is very close to the fossils of the first terrestrial vertebrates. So by studying the modern salamander we have a time window to the ancestors of all terrestrial vertebrates, including humans.

3. Louise Rollins-Smith:

   As an amphibian biologist concerned about the loss of amphibian species around the globe, it is important to note that they may hold important secrets useful for human medicine and they should be preserved.

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