amphib
Americannoun
plural
amphibs-
an amphibious vehicle: a vehicle that functions on land as well as on or under water.
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a military force, usually a combination of army, navy, and air force personnel, which uses naval resources to assist in an otherwise land-based military offensive.
Example Sentences
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The Navy’s USS America, a first-in-class new generation amphib, traveled the seas armed with 13 F-35s, senior Navy officials said.
From Fox News
The biggest such decision the Navy-Marine Corps team faces is what to do about a dozen “dock landing ships” that comprise a third of the vessels in the amphib fleet.
From Forbes
Captain Marder, who was 89 when he died in January, fondly referred to the landing craft as a “pipsqueak bedpan amphib.”
From New York Times
Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, 56, Joy's top subordinate and commander of the Seventh Fleet, an "amphib man," in World War II directed landings in Normandy and the Philippines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amphib�ia, a class of vertebrate animals, which in their early life breathe by gills or branchi�, and afterwards partly or entirely by lungs.
From Project Gutenberg
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