land-salamander

plural land-salamanders · alternative land salamander

1. A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.

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   They think they can turn him into something rich and strange —turn him in a single generation—even as certain ingenious experimentalists turned what Nature meant for a land-salamander into a water-salamander, with new ruddertail and gills instead of lungs and feet suppressed, by feeding him with water animals in oxygenated water and cajoling his functions.

   1888, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts

2. A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.