Crossword-Solution: AMPHIUMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amphiuma | n. | A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “AMPHIUMA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AMERICAN amphibia | 1 answer |
| AMPHIBIA | 5 answers |
| Hellbender | 9 answers |
| axolotl | 9 answers |
| menopome | 9 answers |
| olm | 9 answers |
| MOUNTAIN stream dweller | 10 answers |
| mud puppy | 10 answers |
| Eft | 13 answers |
| Newt | 15 answers |
| Sala-mander | 17 answers |
| amphibian | 32 answers |
| Siren | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with AMPHIUMA (5)
The special interest attaching to the two first is that they represent a type of Labyrinthodonts hitherto unknown, and corresponding with Siren and Amphiuma among living Amphibia.
The fore-limb is a simple filament in _Lepidosiren_, and presents few joints in _Proteus_ and _Amphiuma_; in other air-breathing Vertebrates it shows a more complete development, the humerus, radius and ulna, and the bones of the wrist and hand becoming differentiated out.
Frog 0.0223 " " 0.0157 " " Newt 0.0293 " " 0.0195 " " Proteus 0.0580 " " 0.0350 " " Amphiuma 0.0770 " " 0.0460 " " Their number also varies as follows:-- Man 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 per cub.
Cope (16) regarded the Apoda as the extremes of a line of degeneration from the Salamanders, with _Amphiuma_ as one of the annectent forms.
Sarasin (17), whose great work on the development of _Ichthyophis_ is one of the most important recent contributions to our knowledge of the batrachians, _Amphiuma_ is a sort of neotenic Caecilian, a larval form become sexually mature while retaining the branchial respiration.