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/sˌæləmˈændər/ Listen

Salamander

noun

Any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed.

Reptilian creature supposed to live in fire.

Fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire. Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker.

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"Salamander" Quotes from Famous Books

... only offered myself as a Triton, a boisterous Triton of the sounding shell. You, M., I suppose, would be a salamander, rather. ...

— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... Linkes and Torches, walking with thee in the Night betwixt Tauerne and Tauerne: But the Sack that thou hast drunke me, would haue bought me Lights as good cheape, as the dearest Chandlers in Europe. I haue maintain'd that Salamander of yours with fire, any time this two and thirtie yeeres, Heauen ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... air. Every inch of this structure, of its balconies, its pillars, its great central columns, is wrought over with lovely images, strange and ingenious devices, prime among which is the great heraldic salamander of Francis I. The salamander is everywhere at Blois—over the chimneys, over the doors, on the walls. This whole quarter of the castle bears the stamp of that eminently pictorial prince. The running cornice along the ...

— A Little Tour in France • Henry James

... common viands; and I find they agree with my stomach as well as theirs. I could digest a salad gathered in a churchyard as well as in a garden. I cannot start at the presence of a serpent, scorpion, lizard, or salamander; at the sight of a toad or viper, I find in me no desire to take up a stone to destroy them. I feel not in myself those common antipathies that I discover in others: those national repugnances do not touch me, {26} nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch; ...

— A Book of English Prose - Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools • Percy Lubbock

Words linked to "Salamander" : plethodont, spotted salamander, Dicamptodon ensatus, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, Rhyacotriton olympicus, mud puppy, Proteus anguinus, amphibian, olm, mythical creature, Necturus maculosus, amphiuma, newt, mythical monster, fire iron, Plethodon cinereus, ambystomid, congo snake, dicamptodon, hellbender, siren, Salamandra salamandra, congo eel, blind eel, Salamandra atra, fire salamander, arboreal salamander, Shasta salamander, dicamptodontid, web-toed salamander, Megalobatrachus maximus, triton, Salamandra maculosa, Plethodon vehiculum