plethodon cinereus

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   common salamander of eastern North America

   Synonymseastern red-backed salamander

   Broadersalamander

   Part ofPlethodon

Questions about plethodon cinereus

What does plethodon cinereus mean?

plethodon cinereus means "common salamander of eastern North America".

What is another word for plethodon cinereus?

Close synonyms include eastern red-backed 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 plethodon cinereus a common word?

plethodon cinereus 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.