salamander
noun
any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
salamandroid
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a word derived from
salamander.
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Amblystoma, am-blis′tō-ma, n. a genus of tailed amphibians in the gill-less or salamandroid sub-order—the adult form of axolotl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
