amphibious aircraft

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   an airplane designed to take off and land on water

   Synonymsamphibian

   Broaderairplane

   Partspontoon

Questions about amphibious aircraft

What does amphibious aircraft mean?

amphibious aircraft means "an airplane designed to take off and land on water".

What is another word for amphibious aircraft?

Close synonyms include amphibian. 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 amphibious aircraft a common word?

amphibious aircraft 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.