mud puppies

mud·puppy also mud pup·py (m

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n. pl. mud·pup·pies also mud pup·pies

1. Any of several large North American salamanders of the genus Necturus, especially N. maculosus, that live in damp regions and have conspicuous clusters of dark red external gills. Also called water dog.

2. See hellbender.

mud puppy

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any aquatic North American salamander of the genus Necturus, esp N. maculosus, having red feathery external gills and other persistent larval features: family Proteidae See also neoteny

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Noun	1.	mud puppy - aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills Necturus maculosus salamander - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed genus Necturus, Necturus - a genus of Proteidae
	2.	mud puppy - large salamander of North American rivers and streams Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, hellbender salamander - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed Cryptobranchus, genus Cryptobranchus - type genus of the Cryptobranchidae
	3.	mud puppy - larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing Ambystoma mexicanum, axolotl ambystomid, ambystomid salamander - small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander

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Ambystoma mexicanum
ambystomid
ambystomid salamander
amphibian
amphibian genus
axolotl
Caudata
Cryptobranchus
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
family Proteidae
genus Cryptobranchus
genus Necturus
genus Proteus
hellbender
mudpuppy
Necturus
Necturus maculosus
olm
order Caudata

Don't forget delicious Mississippi products such as Mississippi Cheese Straws, Lemon Straws, Mud Puppies, or Pecan Straws, all made in Yazoo City, and De Beukelaer Pirouline cookies, made in Madison.

Shoemaker gifts by Roper, Patty / Mississippi Magazine

Researchers working with mud puppies -- a variety of salamander with large taste buds -- have made detailed physiological recordings from individual, taste-sensitive nerve cells.

Taste buds engage in cross-talk by Weiss, Rick / Science News

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