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amphibology
English
Alternative forms
- amphibologie (obsolete)
Etymology
From French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, earlier amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /amf??b?l?d?i/
Noun
amphibology (countable and uncountable, plural amphibologies)
- (archaic) Amphiboly.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.133:
- In Athens men learn'd […] to resolve a sophisticall argument, and to confound the imposture and amphibologie of words, captiously enterlaced together […].
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 10,[1]
- […] there are but two [fallacies] worthy our notation; and unto which the rest may be referred: that is the fallacie of Æquivocation and Amphibologie; which conclude from the ambiguity of some one word, or the ambiguous syntaxis of many put together.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.133:
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amphibian
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (amphíbion), from ???? (amphí, “of both kinds”) + ???? (bíos, “life”)
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?m'f?b"?-?n, IPA(key): /æm?f?b??n/
Adjective
amphibian (comparative more amphibian, superlative most amphibian)
- Of or relating to the class Amphibia.
- Capable of operating on both land and water amphibious.
- (obsolete) Having two natures.
Derived terms
- amphibian helicopter
- amphibian species
- amphibian tank
Translations
Noun
amphibian (plural amphibians)
- An animal of the Amphibia; any four-legged vertebrate that does not have amniotic eggs, living both on land and in water.
- A vehicle which can operate on land and water. See Wikipedia article on "Amphibious aircraft"
Synonyms
- amphibium
Hypernyms
- Animalia
- Chordata
- Tetrapoda
Hyponyms
- Batrachia
- batrachian
- batrachofauna
- Labyrinthodontia (extinct)
- Lepospondyli (extinct)
- Lissamphibia
- Anura
- Caudata
- Gymnophiona
- Salientia
Related terms
- Amphibia
- amphibiology
- amphibiotic
- amphibious
- amphibius
Translations
See also
- Appendix: Animals
- amphibole
- amphibology
- amphiboly
- batrachology
- herpetology (amphibiology, reptiliology)
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