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axolotl
[ ak-suh-lot-l ]
noun
- any of several salamanders of the genus Ambystoma that inhabit lakes and ponds of Mexico and remain in the larval stage as sexually mature adults.
axolotl
/ ˈæksəˌlɒtəl /
noun
- any of several aquatic salamanders of the North American genus Ambystoma, esp A. mexicanum ( Mexican axolotl ), in which the larval form (including external gills) is retained throughout life under natural conditions (see neoteny ): family Ambystomidae
- any of various other North American salamanders in which neoteny occurs or is induced
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Word History and Origins
Origin of axolotl1
1780–90; < Nahuatl āxōlōtl, equivalent to ā ( tl ) water + xōlōtl page, male servant
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Word History and Origins
Origin of axolotl1
C18: from Nahuatl, from atl water + xolotl servant, doll
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Example Sentences
Also in the axolotl, where there are douple pits, placed side by side, not only superiorly but at the same time inferiorly.
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When found in the terrestrial form, the Axolotl is called Amblystoma tigrinum, and is classed among the salamanders.
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The Axolotl rarely or never undergoes metamorphosis in its native country, 565.
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Postscript; dryness of the air the probable cause of the assumed reversion of the Amblystoma to the Axolotl, 613.
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What first made this view appear to me erroneous, was the appearance of the living Amblystomas bred from my Axolotl larv.
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