Salamandrine

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  • adj. salamandroid
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling the imaginary salamander in being able to resist fire, or capable of living in fire.
  • In zoology, of or pertaining to the Salamandridæ or Salamandrinæ; resembling or related to Salamandra; salamandriform or salamandroid.
  • n. In zoology, a salamander.
  • n. An alkaloid which has been obtained from the acid cutaneous secretion of the spotted salamander, Salamandra maculosa. Also salamandarine.
  • Word Usage
    "The Jewish immigrant is, moreover, the toughest of all the white elements that have been poured into the American crucible, the race having, by its unique experience of several thousand years of exposure to alien majorities, developed a salamandrine power of survival."