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Plethodontidae

noun

small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults

• Syn: ↑family Plethodontidae

• Hypernyms: ↑amphibian family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Urodella, ↑order Urodella, ↑Caudata, ↑order Caudata

• Member Meronyms:

↑Plethodon, ↑genus Plethodon, ↑lungless salamander, ↑plethodont, ↑Desmograthus, ↑genus Desmograthus, ↑Aneides, ↑genus Aneides, ↑Batrachoseps, ↑genus Batrachoseps, ↑Hydromantes, ↑genus Hydromantes

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈdäntəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Plethodont-, Plethodon, type genus + -idae

: a large family of small chiefly No. American terrestrial or freshwater salamanders that have neither lungs nor gills as adults — see plethodon

Useful english dictionary. 2012.