shasta salamander

1. 1.

   primarily a cave dweller in the Mount Shasta area

   SynonymsHydromantes shastae

   Broaderweb-toed salamander

Questions about shasta salamander

What does shasta salamander mean?

shasta salamander means "primarily a cave dweller in the Mount Shasta area".

What is another word for shasta salamander?

Close synonyms include Hydromantes shastae. 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 shasta salamander a common word?

shasta 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.