amphibians

1. Vertebrate animals, such as frogs, that live part of their life cycle in the water and the other part on land.

Notes

Amphibian is also used to describe things such as vehicles that can operate both on land and in the water.

Amphibians were the first land-dwelling animals to evolve.

Example Sentences

Across mainland Europe, a number of exotic reptiles and amphibians have been accidentally discovered, particularly in potted olive trees:

From BBC

The expedition also found a new species of dwarf squirrel, eight types of fish, three amphibians and 10 types of butterfly.

From BBC

The highlighting process now finally works in amphibians.

From Science Daily

The number of threatened trees now outweighs all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians put together, according to the latest update to the official extinction red list.

From BBC

“We focused on amphibians because 41% of the assessed species are threatened, and temperature is an important driver of their extinction,” the authors said.

From Salon

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• frog
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