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Meanings of Amphi:

Both.

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Amphibian

Meanings of Amphibia:

noun

Amphibians (= animals that live both on land and in water but must produce their eggs in water) as a group

Usage examples:

All poisonous amphibia use their toxins as a means of self-defence and not to catch prey., as a mem…

Meanings of Amphibian:

noun

A cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians. they are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.

Usage examples:

Spadefoot toads are desert-dwelling amphibians that breed opportunistically in short lived pools fi…

adjective

Relating to amphibians.

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Amphibian eggs

Meanings of Amphibians:

noun

A cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians. they are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.

Usage examples:

Spadefoot toads are desert-dwelling amphibians that breed opportunistically in short lived pools fi…

adjective

Relating to amphibians.

Usage examples:

Amphibian eggs

Meanings of Amphibious:

adjective

Relating to, living in, or suited for both land and water.

Usage examples:

An amphibious vehicle

Meanings of Amphiblastula:

noun

A blastula composed predominantly of two different cell types, which constitutes a free-swimming larval form in certain sponges.

Meanings of Amphibole:

noun

Any of a class of rock-forming silicate or aluminosilicate minerals typically occurring as fibrous or columnar crystals.

Usage examples:

Acid rocks consist mostly of quartz and feldspars, with a little mica or amphibole

Meanings of Amphiboles:

noun

Any of a class of rock-forming silicate or aluminosilicate minerals typically occurring as fibrous or columnar crystals.

Usage examples:

Acid rocks consist mostly of quartz and feldspars, with a little mica or amphibole

Meanings of Amphibolies:

noun

Another term for amphibology.

Meanings of Amphibolite:

noun

A granular metamorphic rock consisting mainly of hornblende and plagioclase.

Usage examples:

It contains a variety of lithologies including augen gneiss, quartzite, amphibolite, calc-silicate,…

Meanings of Amphibolitic:

adjective

Of the nature of amphibolite; resembling amphibolite in composition.

Meanings of Amphibologies:

noun

A phrase or sentence that is grammatically ambiguous, such as she sees more of her children than her husband.

Usage examples:

What is perhaps most revealing about his text is its composite character, as it enacts what browne …

Meanings of Amphibology:

noun

A phrase or sentence that is grammatically ambiguous, such as she sees more of her children than her husband.

Usage examples:

What is perhaps most revealing about his text is its composite character, as it enacts what browne …

Meanings of Amphiboly:

noun

Another term for amphibology.

Meanings of Amphibrach:

noun

A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables or (in greek and latin) a long syllable between two short syllables.

Usage examples:

Yet trochees are actually in a minority here: the first and third line of each stanza is composed o…

Meanings of Amphibrachic:

noun

A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables or (in greek and latin) a long syllable between two short syllables.

Usage examples:

Yet trochees are actually in a minority here: the first and third line of each stanza is composed o…

Meanings of Amphicarpia:

adjective

Amphicarpous.

Meanings of Amphicarpic:

adjective

Amphicarpous.

Meanings of Amphimixis:

noun

Sexual reproduction involving the fusion of two different gametes to form a zygote.

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Our findings indicate that in general haplodiploidy and automixis should be more successful than am…

Meanings of Amphioxus:

noun

A small lancelet which is caught for food in parts of asia.

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Thus amphioxus is the only chordate species in which distinct insulin and igf genes have not been f…

Meanings of Amphioxuses:

noun

A small lancelet which is caught for food in parts of asia.

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Thus amphioxus is the only chordate species in which distinct insulin and igf genes have not been f…

Meanings of Amphipod:

noun

A crustacean of the chiefly marine order amphipoda.

Usage examples:

In addition to fish, pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other c…

Meanings of Amphipoda:

plural noun

An order of chiefly marine crustaceans with a laterally compressed body and a large number of appendages like legs.

Usage examples:

Neither amphipoda nor isopoda is known from the early paleozoic when the crustacea are generally re…

Meanings of Amphipods:

noun

A crustacean of the chiefly marine order amphipoda.

Usage examples:

In addition to fish, pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other c…

Meanings of Amphiprostylar:

adjective

(of a classical building) having a portico at each end but not at the sides.

Usage examples:

The archaic temple had the same doric tetrastyle amphiprostyle plan as the subsequent one.