salamandrineadj.n.
/saləˈmandrɪn/ A. adj.
1. Resembling or characteristic of the salamander in being able to resist fire, or live in it.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > quality of being incombustible > [adjective] > fire-resistant > able to withstand fire
salamandrian1602
salamander1711
salamandrine1712
salamanderish1921
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 281. ¶13 A certain Salamandrine Quality, that made it capable of living in the midst of Fire and Flame.
a1849 E. A. Poe Hawthorne in Wks. (1865) III. 190 ‘It becometh not a divine’, saith Lord Coke, ‘to be of a fiery and salamandrine spirit’.
1870 Illustr. London News 29 Oct. 446 They led their salamandrine dance over the glazed delft plaques vis-à-vis to the leaping flames.
1886 A. Simson Trav. Ecuador xiv. 184 There was a hot fire and the necessity of carrying on culinary operations in its immediate vicinity, which tended to call our salamandrine qualities into requisition.
2. Zoology. Of or pertaining to the Salamandrinæ.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Urodela or Caudata > [adjective] > of or relating to Salamandridae
salamandrine1865
1865 Cope in Nat. Hist. Rev. Jan. 104 The representatives of these [types] in the Palæotropical region do not exhibit such decided salamandrine tendencies.
1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. xii. 287 Fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 408 The Salamandrine Amblystoma mexicanum.
B. n.
1. = salamander n. 2b.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > inhabiting fire
salamander1657
salamandrine1797
1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 22 507 The charms of Amenoe, a salamandrine.
1846 Blackwood's Mag. 60 226 Every horrible legend of demon, ghost, goule, gnome, salamandrine, and fireking.
1885 T. P. Battersby Elf Island 15 Then perhaps the elves, and the fairies and the beautiful salamandrines will come back to us.
2. = salamander n. 1b.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Urodela or Caudata > [noun] > family Salamandridae (newts) > salamander
salamander1611
moron1774
salamandrian1850
salamandrid1863
salamandroid1863
salamandrine1891
1891 in Cent. Dict.
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