amphibious
adjective
living or able to live both on land and in water; belonging to both land and water.
amphibiously
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a word derived from
amphibious.
Example Sentences
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He built it in 2017 using the same wooden trusses that support similar roofs all over the province: a basic structure amphibiously evolving, its appendages pushing up against a sturdy membrane of knotty, gray wood.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2020
Thailand was invaded amphibiously at the neck of the Malay Peninsula.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have learnt, as we were advised to do in regard to the things of Mesopotamia, to think amphibiously.
From A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden by Donald Maxwell
Kaluna came up just after we had crossed, undressed, made his clothes into a bundle, and got over amphibiously, leaping, swimming, and diving, looking like a water-god, with the horse and mule after him.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
