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spotted salamander

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spotted salamander
n.
A common salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) of North America, having a black and yellow body with two rows of yellow spots along the back.
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Noun1.spotted salamander - glossy black North American salamander with yellow spotsspotted salamander - glossy black North American salamander with yellow spots
Ambystoma maculatum
ambystomid, ambystomid salamander - small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander
2.spotted salamander - European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spotsspotted salamander - European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots
fire salamander, Salamandra maculosa
genus Salamandra, Salamandra - type genus of the Salamandridae
salamander - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed
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Or I was attracted by the passage of wild pigeons from this wood to that, with a slight quivering winnowing sound and carrier haste; or from under a rotten stump my hoe turned up a sluggish portentous and outlandish spotted salamander, a trace of Egypt and the Nile, yet our contemporary.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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