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mud puppy
noun
1. aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills
Syn: ↑Necturus maculosus
Hypernyms: ↑salamander
Member Holonyms: ↑Necturus, ↑genus Necturus
2. large salamander of North American rivers and streams
Syn: ↑hellbender, ↑Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
Hypernyms: ↑salamander
Member Holonyms: ↑Cryptobranchus, ↑genus Cryptobranchus
3. larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing
Syn: ↑axolotl, ↑Ambystoma mexicanum
Hypernyms: ↑ambystomid, ↑ambystomid salamander

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noun
: any of various mostly large American salamanders: as
a. : hellbender
b. : axolotl
c. : a member of the genus Necturus

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mud puppy,
1. a large aquatic salamander of the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and the eastern United States as far south as Georgia, having bushy, external gills; water dog.
2. any one of various other salamanders, especially the hellbender.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.