AMPHIBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amphibia mean? 

• AMPHIBIA (noun)
  The noun AMPHIBIA has 1 sense:

1. the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians

  Familiarity information: AMPHIBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPHIBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

amphibia; class Amphibia

Hypernyms ("amphibia" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "amphibia"):

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

genus Hynerpeton; Hynerpeton (earliest fossil amphibian ever found; of the Devonian; found in Pennsylvania)

genus Ichthyostega (second earliest fossil amphibian ever found; of the Devonian; found in Greenland)

Caudata; order Caudata; order Urodella; Urodella (salamanders; newts; congo snakes)

Anura; Batrachia; order Anura; order Batrachia; order Salientia; Salientia (frogs, toads, tree toads)

Gymnophiona; order Gymnophiona (an order of amphibians including caecilians)

Labyrinthodonta; Labyrinthodontia; superorder Labyrinthodonta; superorder Labyrinthodontia (extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic)

order Stegocephalia; Stegocephalia (in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia)

polliwog; pollywog; tadpole (a larval frog or toad)

Holonyms ("amphibia" is a member of...):

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)

Derivation:

amphibious (relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia)

 Context examples 

Chromatophores (large pigment cells of fish, amphibia, reptiles and many invertebrates) which contain melanin.

(Murine Melanophores, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The large pigment cells of fish, amphibia, reptiles and many invertebrates which actively disperse and aggregate their pigment granules.

(Chromatophore, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)