salamander 的定义
- any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- a mythical being, especially a lizard or other reptile, thought to be able to live in fire.
- any of various portable stoves or burners.
- Metallurgy. a mass of iron that accumulates at the bottom of a blast furnace as a result of the escape of molten metal through the hearth.
- a metal plate or disk with a handle, heated and held over pastry, casserole crusts, etc., to brown or glaze it.
- an oven usually heated from the top and bottom by gas, for cooking, browning, and glazing food.
salamander 近义词
等同于 amphibian
更多salamander例句
- The term “gerrymander” dates to 1812, when a Massachusetts district drawn to the advantage of Governor Elbridge Gerry was so strangely shaped that it was likened to a salamander.
- Worst-case models for the region projected a “near-complete loss” of the entire group of salamanders they studied, known as plethodontids.
- Yet in recent years, the slippery salamander has proven remarkably resilient to heat, drought, and perhaps even wildfires, owing to a number of unique adaptations.
- There are other, more bizarre tricks that salamanders use to avoid drying out.
- You’d certainly expect moisture-loving salamanders to be doomed in a warming world.
- The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.
- Sprinkle grated breadcrumbs over, brown with a salamander, and serve with brown gravy.
- Any lizard attracted by my hoecake would have to be a salamander—that fire-proof creature that is supposed to live in flames.
- Cutts made his attack on Blenheim with all the fury which earned for him the nickname of the Salamander.
- This yellow man did no mopping; his skin had the gloss of a salamander's, and his eyes were like dusky jewels.