BATRACHOSEPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Batrachoseps mean? 

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

1. slender salamanders

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATRACHOSEPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender salamanders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Batrachoseps; genus Batrachoseps

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

amphibian genus (any genus of amphibians)

Meronyms (members of "Batrachoseps"):

slender salamander; worm salamander (any of several small slim salamanders of the Pacific coast of the United States)

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

family Plethodontidae; Plethodontidae (small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults)