AMPHIBIA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does amphibia mean? 

• AMPHIBIA (noun)
  The noun AMPHIBIA has 1 sense:

1. the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians

  Familiarity information: AMPHIBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPHIBIA (noun)

Meaning:

The class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

amphibia; class Amphibia

Hypernyms ("amphibia" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "amphibia"):

polliwog; pollywog; tadpole (a larval frog or toad)

order Stegocephalia; Stegocephalia (in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia)

Labyrinthodonta; Labyrinthodontia; superorder Labyrinthodonta; superorder Labyrinthodontia (extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic)

Gymnophiona; order Gymnophiona (an order of amphibians including caecilians)

Anura; Batrachia; order Anura; order Batrachia; order Salientia; Salientia (frogs, toads, tree toads)

Caudata; order Caudata; order Urodella; Urodella (salamanders; newts; congo snakes)

genus Ichthyostega (second earliest fossil amphibian ever found; of the Devonian; found in Greenland)

genus Hynerpeton; Hynerpeton (earliest fossil amphibian ever found; of the Devonian; found in Pennsylvania)

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

Holonyms ("amphibia" is a member of...):

Craniata; subphylum Craniata; subphylum Vertebrata; Vertebrata (fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals)