(a.) Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.
(a.) Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water.
(a.) Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.
Example Sentences:
(1) MT" In late April, it became known that the Spanish were planning to hold an amphibious exercise "at a training area about 35 miles west of the Rock", an Ministry of Defence note said.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Amphibious camels returning to Africa’ at Bamba Issa in Forte dei Marmi, 1969.
(3) Amphibious vision is provided by a flattened area within the cornea.
(4) The Marine Air-Ground Task Force stationed there specialises in the exact amphibious operations and integration with air assets which would be necessary to enforce the kind of intervention that Tillerson has called for.
(5) Abu Khattala is currently held aboard the USS New York, an amphibious transport dock, similar to the unwitting trips on US navy ships taken by two earlier terrorist suspects, the Somalian Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame and Abu Khattala's fellow Libyan, Liby.
(6) Research on the transmission of Hemiurid Trematode Halipegus ovocaudatus in experimental and natural conditions demonstrates the following: --the miracidium grows into a sporocyst producing rediae in the Mollusc Planorbis planorbis; -- the cystophorous cercariae become mesocercariae in the hemocoele of Copepodes or finally Ostracodes when swallowed; -- the mesocercariae become matacercariae in the mesenteron of larval Odonates (Zygoptera and Anisoptera) when these larvae swallow the Crustacea; -- the metacercariae become become adults in the Amphibial Rana ridibundal perezi which feeds on dragonflies.
(7) This is the Royal Navy’s description of the vessel : Echo was launched at Appledore in Devon in 2002, and was designed to carry out a wide range of survey work, including support to submarine and amphibious operations, through the collection of oceanographic and bathymetric (analysis of the ocean, its salinity and sound profile) data.
(8) George Little, the Pentagon press secretary, said Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, also known as Ikrima, was the focus of the pre-dawn amphibious assault that was beaten back after a heavy firefight.
(9) Commander Gavin Edward, coordinating the ship’s arrival on the jetty at Taranto, southern Italy, said: “The speed with which the Italian Red Cross, police and government officials have received these survivors has been really impressive and as a result we should be able to set sail later this afternoon.” Inside the towering grey sides of the amphibious warship, the 450 members of the ship’s company were preparing to return to its search and rescue mission.
(10) The number of destroyers and frigates will be cut from 23 to 19 and the navy will loose an amphibious landing vessel.
(11) Most of the work will be carried out from the banks because it is safer, but workers also hope to use an amphibious dredger and could operate from pontoons in the river.
(12) Capable of collecting an array of military hydrographic and oceanographic data, due to her multi-role capability Echo is also equipped to support mine warfare and amphibious operations.
(13) Officials said the USS San Antonio, an amphibious ship with several hundred US Marines on board, had arrived in the region for a different reason but given the current situation it was being kept near the destroyers "as a precaution", the Reuters news agency reported.
(14) The morphology of the ophthalmic cornea in the blenniid fish Coryphoblennius galerita (Teleostei) shows adaptation to the amphibious life.
(15) To rapidly deploy troops as the situation unfolds, mobile deployment capability and amphibious capability are also important."
(16) The morphology of the incomplete cranial remains, however, gives no evidence that Pakicetus was an amphibious intermediate stage.
(17) The navy also secured a new amphibious assault capability.
(18) Using natural openings as routes for penetration probably provides a selective advantage in a host-parasite system in which the target mollusc is amphibious: we presume that the miracidia inside these natural openings are protected against desiccation when the snail leaves the water, and that they can subsequently invade the tissues.
(19) On Wednesday China reportedly sent two amphibious ships equipped with anti-air missiles as further defence.
(20) The navy's fleet of frigates, amphibious vessels, and other surface ships, will also be cut.
Crocodile
Definition:
(n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
(n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(2) It has been characterised by others in government as just beating back the crocodiles that come close to the boat rather than draining the swamp."
(3) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
(4) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
(5) The distributions of lipid, glycogen, peroxidase, acid and alkaline phosphatases, beta-glucuronidase and naphthol AS-D chloroacetate esterase have been studied in the cells of peripheral smears from the wall ghecko and the crocodile.
(6) Such is the success of the image overhaul in some areas that the slogan in the municipality of San Mariano where the foundation works is now: "Philippine crocodile: something to be proud of."
(7) The white paper proposals were “scary” and threatened multiple areas of conservation, not just crocodile management, he said.
(8) The syndrome of crocodile tears, or Bogorad's syndrome is a rare complication of the facial paralysis.
(9) It is her work to change this image through community initiatives that has seen Gatan Balbas recognised with a Whitley Fund for Nature award and helped to bring the Philippine crocodile ( Crocodylus mindorensis ) back from the brink of extinction.
(10) This is the first record of P. multilineata from Asia (Beijing, People's Republic of China) and also a new host record for the estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
(11) The ABC reported Scullion believes the Territory government could allow crocodile safaris under its own management plan once an agreement between it and the commonwealth on one-stop shop environmental approvals was settled.
(12) It was concluded that the bilateral paresis was caused by severe septic arthritis secondary to bacteremia, and that the crocodile died from spinal injury caused by the blood transfusion into the supravertebral vein.
(13) People want to hear your accent, to buy you drinks, to ask questions about spiders and crocodiles and Neighbours and maybe the cricket.
(14) Nucleus magnocellularis is probably homologous with the nucleus magnocellularis medialis of lizards and crocodiles, and has been described in turtles as nucleus dorsalis magnocellularis by previous authors.
(15) Gold award • Jean Wiener – Haiti "Lifetime achievement" award for 25 years conserving Haiti's coastal ecosystems and securing its first marine protected areas Whitley Fund for Nature awards • Shivani Bhalla – Kenya Warrior Watch: enabling the coexistence of people and lions in northern Kenya • Luis Torres – Cuba Building a national movement to save Cuba's amazing plant life • Fitryi Pakiding – Indonesia Uniting coastal communities to secure the Pacific's last stronghold for nesting leatherback turtles • Marites Gatan-Balbas – Philippines Taking local action to save the world's rarest crocodile • Melvin Gumal – Malaysia Protecting Borneo's iconic great apes: conservation of orangutans in Sarawak • Stoycho Stoychev – Bulgaria The imperial eagle as a flagship for conserving the wild grasslands of south-eastern Bulgaria • Paula Kahumbu – Kenya Hands off our elephants: delivering African leadership to address Kenya's poaching crisis
(16) Compare this to the Coalition party room, which has more holes than a meat-sack thrown to the crocodiles.
(17) Fear of crocodiles and hippopotami is important because villagers are compelled to use for domestic purposes, the smaller, shallower habitats, where Bulinus (Ph.)
(18) The process begins in the paravasal mesenchyma which is gradually disguised by hemopoietic cells (in chicken embryos--at the stage of 8 days, in crocodiles--23 days of incubation).
(19) Eagle steals camera near crocodile meat trap In the frame Source: Viral Video Chart .
(20) A mummified crocodile in the back streets of Oxford might not be an obvious guardian for one of life's great mysteries.