axolote

plural axolotes

1. obsoleteObsolete form of axolotl.

   Some amphibious reptiles furnished with gills, as the siren (a kind of frog found in North America), and the axolote, a Mexican lizard, have the rudiments of a cartilaginous larynx.

   1885, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Eben Tourjée, Sound and Its Phenomena, O. Ditson & Company, page 170

   2 more examples

   With respect to situation, the teeth may be present on the jaws only, i. e. the maxillary, premaxillary, and mandibular bones, as in the crocodiles and many lizards: or upon the jaws and roof of the mouth; and here either upon the pterygoid bones, as in the iguana and mosasaur, or upon both palatine and pterygoid bones, as in most serpents, or upon vomer, as in most batrachians, or upon both vomerine and pterygoid bones, as in the axolote, or upon the vomerine and sphenoid bones, as in the salamandra glutinosa, maclure.

   1851, American Journal of Dental Science, Volume 2, William Gird Beecroft., page 464

   That modifications of development have taken and still take place, is proved by the fact that recently the Axolot (q. v.) of Mexico has been experimentally metamorphosed into the Amblystoma, a N. American eft, by careful attention in inducing the axolote to leave the water and to gradually adapt itself to a land existence.

   1890, Globe encyclopædia, The illustrated Globe encyclopædia, Volume 4, page 252