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axolotl
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ax·o·lotl  (ks-ltl)
n.
Any of several salamanders (genus Ambystoma) native to Mexico and the western United States that, unlike most amphibians, often retain their external gills and become sexually mature without undergoing metamorphosis.
[Nahuatl.]
axolotl
Noun
an aquatic salamander of N America [Mexican Indian: water doll]
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Noun1.axolotlaxolotl - larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing
Ambystoma mexicanum, mud puppy
ambystomid, ambystomid salamander - small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander


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2 This is of course not entirely true, for early peoples did not know about the denizens of the dark like anaerobic bacteria, axolotls or the wriggling worms that dwell round fumaroles in the deep trenches of the oceans, all reproducing and surviving in total absence of flight.
Light on matter. (Comment) by Deitz, Paula / The Architectural Review
Gardiner, both at the University of California, Irvine, have turned to salamanders called axolotls to study how a blastema transforms itself into a limb.
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