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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Vertebrata — theamphibians .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fishes, nor Reptiles, properly speaking, and are called Amphibia, because they live, as it were, a double life.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham
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At present I am plunged in "Amphibia," doing a lot of original work to settle questions which have been hanging vaguely in my mind for years.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"Amphibia" is done by the end of January it is as much as it will be.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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I have seen and done with all "Amphibia" but the last sheet, and that only waits revise.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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If we turn to the 'Amphibia', there was one extinct order, the Labyrinthodonts, typified by the large salamander-like beast shown in this diagram.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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How astonished folks will be if eloquent passages out of the address get among the "Amphibia," and comments on Frog anatomy into the address.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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[Meanwhile the address and the ten days 'stay at Aberdeen had been] "playing havoc with the" Amphibia, "[but on returning home, he went to work upon the latter, and writes on March 12: --]
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Here is the book about frogs and other amphibians: G. Kingsley Noble's The Biology of the Amphibia, originally published in 1931; this is the 1954 Dover edition.
Archive 2009-08-01 AYDIN 2009
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Here is the book about frogs and other amphibians: G. Kingsley Noble's The Biology of the Amphibia, originally published in 1931; this is the 1954 Dover edition.
A couple of frogs and a book about them AYDIN 2009
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In turn, Tetrapoda consists of and contains Amphibia and Amniota.
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