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amphibious

[ UK /æmfˈɪbɪəs/ ]
[ US /æmˈfɪbiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia
  2. operating or living on land and in water
    amphibious vehicles
    frogs are amphibious animals
    amphibious troops
    amphibious operations

How To Use amphibious In A Sentence

  • The most interesting statistic on the list is the large number of accidents where the pilot attempted to land with the gear down with amphibious floats.
  • He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
  • In the south the French division mounted a diversionary amphibious raid at Kum Kale on the Asian side of the Dardanelles.
  • He was a master of the natatorial art, but he was not amphibious, and soon would have to come to the surface or die. Footprints in the Forest
  • He is closemouthed on the specifics of other cuts, but in San Francisco recently he strongly hinted, to an audience composed mostly of Marine Corps veterans, that he is aiming at one of the Marines 'most cherished programs, a high-speed assault craft for amphibious landings. A War Within
  • The final ship of the Fleet's four new auxiliary landing ships will take to the water in a couple of the months as the revolution in the RN's amphibious forces reaches its final stages.
  • It was, after all, the most ambitious amphibious operation in the annals of military history until the Normandy invasion.
  • Chlorophyll contents, as well as concentrations of the carboxylation enzymes Rubisco and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, are lower in aquatic compared with terrestrial leaves of amphibious plants.
  • Shipwreck stayed in Sgt. Slaughters amphibious tank with the Baroness, hes smooth like that. First Look: G.I. Joe's Complete Cast - General Hawk, Destro, Duke, Baroness, Ripcord, and More! « FirstShowing.net
  • It looked as if he and Bruce would have to swim the last twenty yards to shore, but Donovan spotted a DUKW amphibious truck and shouted at the Duck driver to draw near. Wild Bill Donovan
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