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mud puppy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mud puppy has 3 senses
- mud puppy(n = noun.animal) necturus maculosus - aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills; Array is a kind of salamander
- mud puppy(n = noun.animal) cryptobranchus alleganiensis, hellbender - large salamander of North American rivers and streams; Array is a kind of salamander
- mud puppy(n = noun.animal) ambystoma mexicanum, axolotl - larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing; Array is a kind of ambystomid, ambystomid salamander
is a member of genus necturus, necturus
is a member of cryptobranchus, genus cryptobranchus
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