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GENUS HYDROMANTES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hydromantes mean?
• GENUS HYDROMANTES (noun)
The noun GENUS HYDROMANTES has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS HYDROMANTES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Web-toed salamanders
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Hydromantes; Hydromantes
Hypernyms ("genus Hydromantes" is a kind of...):
amphibian genus (any genus of amphibians)
Meronyms (members of "genus Hydromantes"):
web-toed salamander (any of several salamanders with webbed toes and very long extensile tongues; excellent climbers that move with ease over smooth rock surfaces)
Holonyms ("genus Hydromantes" is a member of...):
family Plethodontidae; Plethodontidae (small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults)
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