CLIMBING SALAMANDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does climbing salamander mean? 

• CLIMBING SALAMANDER (noun)
  The noun CLIMBING SALAMANDER has 1 sense:

1. any of several North American salamanders adapted for climbing with well-developed limbs and long somewhat squared-off toes

  Familiarity information: CLIMBING SALAMANDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIMBING SALAMANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several North American salamanders adapted for climbing with well-developed limbs and long somewhat squared-off toes

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("climbing salamander" is a kind of...):

salamander (any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "climbing salamander"):

Aneides lugubris; arboreal salamander (yellow-spotted brown salamander of California woodlands)

Holonyms ("climbing salamander" is a member of...):

Aneides; genus Aneides (climbing salamanders)