ambystoma tigrinum

1. 1.

   widely distributed brown or black North American salamander with vertical yellowish blotches

   Synonymstiger salamander

   Broaderambystomid

Questions about ambystoma tigrinum

What does ambystoma tigrinum mean?

ambystoma tigrinum means "widely distributed brown or black North American salamander with vertical yellowish blotches".

What is another word for ambystoma tigrinum?

Close synonyms include tiger salamander. 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 tigrinum a common word?

ambystoma tigrinum 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.