单词 | spotted salamander |
释义 | > as lemmasspotted salamander spotted salamander n. [originally after German gefleckter Salamander (1837 in the passage translated in quot. 1839, or earlier)] either of two common salamanders that are typically black with yellowish spots: the fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra, of Europe, and (now chiefly) a mole salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, of eastern North America. ΚΠ 1839 W. Baly tr. J. Müller Elements Physiol. (ed. 2) I. iii. 757 The experiments on the land or spotted salamander are still more instructive. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xviii. 478 The spotted salamander (Salamandra maculosa) shows the following points of interest. 1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith Reptiles & Amphibians vi. 144 Spotted salamander..has large, round, yellow, or orange spots on a black skin. 2003 Nat. New Eng. Summer 46 She concentrated on wood frogs and spotted salamanders, species that have declined in the intensively developed state. < as lemmas |
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