Amphiuma

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Amphiuma has 1 sense

amphiuma(n = noun.animal) blind eel, congo eel, congo snake - aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States; Array

is a kind of salamander

is a member of genus amphiuma

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Amphiuma, n.

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake. [1913 Webster]

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