eastern red-backed salamander

1. 1.

   common salamander of eastern North America

   SynonymsPlethodon cinereus

   Broadersalamander

   Part ofPlethodon

Questions about eastern red-backed salamander

What does eastern red-backed salamander mean?

eastern red-backed salamander means "common salamander of eastern North America".

What is another word for eastern red-backed salamander?

Close synonyms include Plethodon cinereus. 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 eastern red-backed salamander a common word?

eastern red-backed salamander 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.