ambystoma mexicanum

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   larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing

   Synonymsaxolotlmud puppy

   Broaderambystomid

Questions about ambystoma mexicanum

What does ambystoma mexicanum mean?

ambystoma mexicanum means "larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing".

What is another word for ambystoma mexicanum?

Close synonyms include axolotl, mud puppy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambystoma mexicanum a common word?

ambystoma mexicanum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.