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small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander

↑mole salamander, ↑Ambystoma talpoideum, ↑spotted salamander, ↑Ambystoma maculatum, ↑tiger salamander, ↑Ambystoma tigrinum, ↑axolotl, ↑mud puppy, ↑Ambystoma mexicanum, ↑waterdog

see ambystoma

/am bis"teuh mid/, n.

1. Also called mole salamander. any of various small- to moderate-sized salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, terrestrial or semiaquatic, inhabiting North America from New England to Florida and westward to Texas.

2. of or pertaining to the ambystomids. Cf. axolotl.

[1940-45; < NL Ambystom(a) genus name (amby-, prob. erroneous for Gk amblý(s) blunt, dull + -stoma -STOME) + -ID²]