Meanings
nounfrogamander (plural frogamanders)
plural frogamanders
- biologyThe extinct amphibamid Gerobatrachus.
The “frogamander” is still full of mystery as scientists work to figure out how and where it fits in the amphibian family tree.
2016, Melissa Shofner, Mariel Bard, Amphibian Fossils, page 211 more example
This amphibian Abraham, aka the frogamander, lived during the early Permian but was only discovered in 2007, a fossil in Don's Dump Fish Quarry in Baylor County, Texas.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 14
Origin
From blend of frog + salamander.
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