单词 | amphibian |
释义 | amphibian From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Animalsamphibianam‧phib‧i‧an /æmˈfɪbiən/ noun [countable]HBAan animal such as a frog that can live both on land and in waterExamples from the Corpusamphibian• Members of this group are chiefly external parasites of turtles, fishes, and amphibians.• Plants and many insects and amphibians have an additional method: chemical defense.• The reptiles and amphibians of the world began a general withdrawal from existence many, millions of years ago.• They can decimate the population of these baby amphibians in a pond system.• In most vertebrates in which they have been intensively studied - amphibians and birds - gastrulation movements are rather complicated.• Nobody knows why, any more than anyone knows why amphibians are disappearing, dolphins are dying or coral is turning white. |
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