Andrias
noun
An·dri·as
ˈandrēəs
: a genus of large fossil Miocene salamanders scarcely distinct from the recent genus Cryptobranchus
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek, image of a man, from andr-, anēr man; from the fact that the first specimen found was believed to be the remains of a man destroyed by the Deluge
First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above