Medical term:

Amphibia


Amphibia

 [am-fib´e-ah]
a class of animals that breathe by means of gills in the larval state but after metamorphosis breathe by means of lungs.
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Amphibia

(am-fĭb′ē-ă) [Gr. amphibia (zōia), (animals) living a double life]
A class of cold-blooded animals that live on land and in water; includes salamanders, frogs, and toads. They breathe through gills during their aquatic larval stage but through lungs in their adult stage.
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amphibian

(ăm-fĭb′ē-ən)
n.
Any of various cold-blooded, usually smooth-skinned vertebrates of the class Amphibia, characteristically hatching as an aquatic larva with gills and then transforming into an adult having air-breathing lungs. Frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians are amphibians.
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amphibian

(am-fĭb′ē-ăn)
An animal of the class Amphibia.
amphibian, adjective
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amphibian

a member of the vertebrate class Amphibia, containing frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and the burrowing caecilians. Descended from fish-like animals, they colonized the land in the late DEVONIAN PERIOD. They are thought to be the immediate ancestors of the reptiles, though present-day amphibians are little like their Devonian ancestors. Most amphibians, although normally terrestrial animals, return to water during the breeding season. Fertilization is external (the eggs lacking a shell and embryonic membranes), and the eggs are usually laid and develop in water.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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