Meaning of land-salamander | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
2. A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.

Examples

“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.”

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