amphibian

1. 1.

   a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water

   Synonymsamphibious vehicle

   Broadermotor vehicle

   Narrowerswamp buggy
2. 2.

   an airplane designed to take off and land on water

   Synonymsamphibious aircraft

   Broaderairplane

   Partspontoon
3. 3.

   cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form

   Broadervertebrate

   NarrowerHynerpeton bassettiIchyostegaurodelesalamanderfrogcaecilianlabyrinthodont

   Part ofamphibia

   Partslateral line

1. 1.

   relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

   Synonymsamphibious

Other forms of amphibian

plural

amphibians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amphibian

What does amphibian mean?

amphibian means "a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amphibian?

amphibian has 4 syllables: am-phib-i-an. The stress falls on "phib". In IPA it is /æmˈfɪbiən/.

What is another word for amphibian?

Close synonyms include amphibious vehicle, amphibious aircraft, amphibious. 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 amphibian a common word?

amphibian is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.