Crossword-Solution: AMPHIBIANS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Cold-blooded animals that are able to live both in water and land | 1 answer |
| Surf-and-turf sorts? | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AMPHIBIANS (5)
Branchial arches, the bony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians.
The sea and swamp both were doubtless alive with these mighty, carnivorous amphibians, and if not, the individual that menaced me would pursue me into either the sea or the swamp with equal facility.
These people walked along the high banks or disported themselves in the water like amphibians, greatly to the delight of the girls.
Aristotle divides his so-called blood-bearing animals into five classes: (1) Four-footed animals that bring forth their young alive; (2) birds; (3) egg-laying four-footed animals (including what modern naturalists call reptiles and amphibians); (4) whales and their allies; (5) fishes.
This classification, as will be observed, is not so very far afield from the modern divisions into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
Quotes with AMPHIBIANS (3)
Grandmother trains me when to slip and slide and change, and when to remain inert. She tells me, "It is true, women are the keepers. We are keepers of silverware, the bites of savouries in our broth. We are the sole keepers of the keys to the almari. But child, what we really excel at is adapting. Outward, we appear fixed, planted as feet, but we are also amphibians, pulling our families through land and sea when catastrophe strikes.
Amphibians — the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.
We don’t sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We’re amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both." Edward Nesbit
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).