Meanings of amphibious animals in English

The Tahitians have the dexterity of amphibious animals in the water.

Fish, too, and all cold-blooded amphibious animals are gifted with the same power.

But seamen, like most other amphibious animals, are always the most helpless on land.

Of course, as soon as open water comes they are safe, as they are thoroughly amphibious animals.

Certainly he might justly have been called a sea-horse-betterthan many of the amphibious animals who bear that name.

No one, it was probable, would ever appear to dispute my claim, unless it were the amphibious animals of the ocean.

The word genábik, rendered serpent, appears likewise to have been used in a generic sense for amphibious animals of large and venomous character.

A resting place out of the water suffices for such amphibious animals as, while they necessarily live in the atmosphere, feed in the sea.

Then we took to shooting the penguins which swarmed upon the rocks, and to capturing some of the amphibious animals which frequented the beach.

Descended from small amphibious animals, they later included great marine reptiles, characterized in the typical genus by long neck, snakelike head, and immense paddles.

All those amphibious animals which now inhabit this world then roamed through the watery waste to which this woman, in her fall, was now hastening.

Not exactly, Tom, but I know you are fond of telling fibs, and perhaps the amphibious animals may afford you some scope in that way.

Linnaeus has divided them into six classes;-Mammalia ,Birds ,Fishes ,AmphibiousAnimals, Insects, and Worms.