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salamandrian, a. and n.|sæləˈmændrɪən|
[f. L. salamandra salamander + -ian.]
A. adj.
1. Resembling (that of) a salamander.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 2 The Iesuits were the first beginners thereof [of scandal], and haue continued on this Salamandrian smoake of vaporous heats. 1647Owen Death of Death Wks. 1852 X. 155 It is not..any Salamandrian Complexion that was the motive to this undertaking.
2. Belonging to the genus Salamandra.
1850Fraser's Mag. XLI. 656 A salamandrian larva. 1888G. Allen in Good Words 232 A few other salamandrian creatures.
B. n. A salamandrian batrachian.
1850Fraser's Mag. XLI. 656 A great fossil salamandrian. |