Salamander

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various small lizardlike amphibians of the order Caudata, having porous scaleless skin and four, often weak or rudimentary legs.
  • n. A mythical creature, generally resembling a lizard, believed capable of living in or withstanding fire.
  • n. In the occult philosophy of Paracelsus, a being having fire as its element.
  • n. An object, such as a poker, used in fire or capable of withstanding heat.
  • n. Metallurgy A mass of solidified material, largely metallic, left in a blast-furnace hearth.
  • n. A portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
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  • n. A long slender (usually) terrestrial amphibian, resembling a lizard and newt; taxonomic order Urodela
  • n. A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire, hence the elemental being of fire.
  • n. A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
  • n. In a professional kitchen a small broiler, used primarily for browning.
  • v. To apply a salamander (flat iron utensil above) in a cooking process.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.
  • n. The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States.
  • n. A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.
  • n. A large poker.
  • n. Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of lizard or other reptile formerly supposed to live in or be able to endure fire.
  • n. An imaginary or immaterial being of human form living in fire; an elemental of the fire; that one of the four classes of nature-spirits which corresponds to the element fire, the others being called sylphs, undines, and gnomes.
  • n. In zoology, a urodele batrachian, or tailed amphibian; a newt or an eft; a triton; especially, a terrestrial batrachian of this kind, not having the tail compressed like a fin, as distinguished from one of the aquatic kinds especially called newts or tritons; specifically, a member of the restricted family Salamandridæ. (See Salamandra.)
  • n. In heraldry, the representation of a four-legged creature with a long tail, surrounded by flames of fire. It is a modern bearing, and the flames are usually drawn in a realistic way.
  • n. The pocket-gopher of the South Atlantic and Mexican Gulf States, Geomys tuza or G. pinetis, a rodent mammal.
  • n. Same as bear, 7.
  • n. Anything used in connection with the fire, or useful only when very hot, as a culinary vessel, a poker, an iron used red-hot to ignite gunpowder, and the like.
  • n. A fire-proof safe.
  • n. A wire basket in which waste paper or other combustible refuse can be gathered by street-cleaners, and in which such waste can be burned.
  • n. A mass of solidified and infusible material in an iron blast- or other smelting-furnace hearth. It usually consists of wrought-iron.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
  • n. reptilian creature supposed to live in fire
  • n. any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed
    • Equivalent
    salamander's wool   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fire iron    mythical monster    mythical creature   
    Form
    salamandrine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alexander    Leander    Lysander    Sander    Santander   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tadpole    sylph    dree    newt    gullet   
     
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