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Axolotl

noun
1.
Larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing.  Synonyms: Ambystoma mexicanum, mud puppy.






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"Axolotl" Quotes from Famous Books



... in total darkness, yet they differ in no respect from those reared in full daylight. The chromatophores were as abundant and responded to irritation as promptly in the one as in the other. The distinguished Paul Bert declared that the young of the axolotl could not form pigment when reared in a yellow light. Professor Semper, on the contrary, declares Bert's axolotls to be albinos, and states that albinism is by no means infrequent in the axolotl; also ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir



Words linked to "Axolotl" :   ambystomid salamander, ambystomid



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