Amphibious means able to use either land or water. In particular it may refer to:
Animals
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Amphibian
Amphibians are tetrapod, four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the Class (biology), class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terres ...
, a vertebrate animal of the class Amphibia (many of which live on land and breed in water)
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Amphibious caterpillar
Amphibious caterpillar refers to over 40 species of semiaquatic caterpillars endemic to Hawaii that are the only insects that live as readily in water as on land. In 2010, Daniel Rubinoff and Patrick Schmitz at the University of Hawaii at Manoa fir ...
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Amphibious fish
Amphibious fish are fish that are able to leave water for extended periods of time. About 11 distantly related genera of fish are considered amphibious. This suggests that many fish genera independently evolved amphibious traits, a process known ...
, a fish that is able to leave water for extended periods of time
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Amphibious insect
Aquatic insects or water insects live some portion of their biological life cycle, life cycle in the water. They feed in the same ways as other insects. Some ''diving'' insects, such as predatory diving beetles, can hunt for food underwater where ...
, an insect which lives in the air or on land and breeds in water
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Amphibious rat (disambiguation) Amphibious rat may refer to:
* ''Amphinectomys savamis'', the amphibious rat, of Peru
* ''Lundomys molitor'', Lund's amphibious rat, of Uruguay and southern Brazil
* ''Nilopegamys plumbeus
The Ethiopian amphibious rat also known as the Ethiopian ...
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Scolopendra cataracta
''Scolopendra cataracta'' is a species of centipede in the family Scolopendridae. It is the first known amphibious centipede, growing to up to in length.
Discovery
George Beccaloni, an entomologist and curator at the Natural History Museum, L ...
'', a species of amphibious centipede
Arts and media
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''Amphibious'' (2010 film), a thriller film
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''Amphibious'' (2020 film), a drama film
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Amphibius (comics)
The Savage Land Mutates is a supervillain group of criminals appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Their creators were writer Roy Thomas and the penciler/inker team of Neal Adams and Tom Palmer. Within the comic books, th ...
, a minor comic book character
Technology
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Amphibious aircraft
An amphibious aircraft or amphibian is an aircraft (typically fixed-wing) that can take off and land on both solid ground and water, though amphibious helicopters do exist as well. Fixed-wing amphibious aircraft are seaplanes ( flying boats ...
, an aircraft capable of landing on either water or land
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Amphibious vehicle
An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian), is a vehicle that is a means of transport viable on land as well as on or under water. Amphibious vehicles include amphibious bicycles, ATVs, cars, buses, trucks, railway vehicles, combat vehicles an ...
, a vehicle capable of being driven on both land and water
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Amphibious warfare
Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach. Through history the operations were conducte ...
, warfare carried out on both land and water
See also
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Amphibian (disambiguation)
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Amphibia (disambiguation)
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