Crossword-Solution: AMPHIBIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amphibian | a. | Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles. |
| Amphibian | n. | One of the Amphibia. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AMPHIBIAN (5)
Once an unwary crocodile attacked him but the sinuous trunk dove beneath the surface and grasping the amphibian about the middle dragged it to light and hurled it a hundred feet down stream.
With this monologue should be read the mystical description, in ‘The Passing of Arthur’ (Tennyson’s Idylls of the King), of “the last, dim, weird battle of the west”, beginning,-- “A deathwhite mist slept over sand and sea.” Amphibian.
Amphibian is one who unites both lives within himself, the material and the spiritual, in complete concord and mutual subservience-- one who “lives and likes life’s way”, and can also free himself of tether, leave the solid land, and, unable to fly, swim “in the sphere which overbrims with passion and thought”,-- the sphere of poetry.
They go there to indulge their amphibian proclivities in diving for small fish, and enjoying the cool depths of the water.
The first frog who crosses your path can tell you all about the pleasures of the double existence of the amphibian.
Quotes with AMPHIBIAN (3)
Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was a toad as big as Will's foot, which could only flop in a pain-filled sideways heave as if it were horribly injured. It lay across the path, trying to move out of the way and looking at them as if it knew they meant to hurt it.'It would be merciful to kill it,' said Tialys.'How do you know?' said Lyra. 'It might still like being alive, in spite of everythi…
Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest... The origin of species — Darwin’s problem — remains unsolved.
It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom.
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Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).