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AMPHIBIAN FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any family of amphibiansplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("amphibian family" is a kind of...):

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amphibian family"):

Caeciliadae; Caeciliidae; family Caeciliadae; family Caeciliidae (coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians)

family Xenopodidae; Xenopodidae (in some classifications the family of the genus Xenopus which is otherwise included in the family Pipidae)

family Pipidae; Pipidae (tongueless frogs)

Brevicipitidae; family Brevicipitidae; family Microhylidae; Microhylidae (narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide)

family Hylidae; Hylidae (the amphibian family of tree frogs)

family Pelobatidae; Pelobatidae (the amphibian family of spadefoot toads)

Discoglossidae; family Discoglossidae (family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue)

Bufonidae; family Bufonidae (true toads)

family Leiopelmatidae; family Liopelmidae; Leiopelmatidae; Liopelmidae (primitive New Zealand frogs)

Ascaphidae; family Ascaphidae (family of one species of frog: tailed frog)

family Polypedatidae; Polypedatidae (Old World tree frogs)

family Leptodactylidae; Leptodactylidae (New World frogs; in some classifications essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae)

family Ranidae; Ranidae (a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs)

family Sirenidae; Sirenidae (sirens)

Amphiumidae; family Amphiumidae (congo snakes)

family Plethodontidae; Plethodontidae (small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults)

Dicamptodontidae; family Dicamptodontidae (large and small highly aquatic salamanders)

Cryptobranchidae; family Cryptobranchidae (large aquatic salamanders: hellbenders; giant salamanders)

Ambystomatidae; family Ambystomatidae (New World salamanders)

family Salamandridae; Salamandridae (salamanders)

Holonyms ("amphibian family" is a member of...):

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)

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