Word Finder - salamander

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A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.

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A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.

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A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.

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A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.

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The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.

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The pouched gopher, Geomys tuza, of the southern United States.

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A large poker.

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Solidified material in a furnace hearth.

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Portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.

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To use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.

In fact, among the remaining land vertebrates, only the black salamander (Salamandra atra) is exclusively alpine.

The largest living amphibian is the Chinese giant salamander.

In the remarkable salamander Autodax, the teeth in the jaws are compressed, sharp-edged, lancet shaped.

Do you take me for a salamander?

All the way back in 1902, scientist and embryologist Hans Spemman, meticulously sliced a 2-celled salamander embryo by using a single hair from his infant son's head.

Petroleum (" burning water ") was known in Japan in the 7th century, whilst in Europe the gas springs of the north of Italy led to the adoption in 1226 by the municipality of Salsomaggiore of a salamander surrounded by flames as its emblem.

And yet subsequent discoveries, which followed in rapid succession, have established that Siredon is but the larval form of the salamander Amblystoma, a genus long known from various parts of North America; and Cuvier's conclusions now read much better than they did half a century after they were published.

The outline of one of these districts, which was thought to resemble a salamander, gave rise in 1812, through a popular application of the governor's name, to the term Gerrymander ".

All this Farragut executed to the letter, with a skill and caution that won for him the love of his followers, and with a dash and boldness that gained him the admiration of the public and the popular name of "Old Salamander."

The axolotl is a salamander, and many of the fundamental discoveries in vertebrate embryology came from studies of axolotl embryos.

The researchers tested the suggestion that pathogens may be influential by feeding cannibal tiger salamander larvae diseased and non-diseased prey.

Picture shows the 12 gas rings, salamander grill and far left, the dishwasher area.

Salamander Books (London, 1987) Contains a brief historical overview of gun development, then details contemporary weapons.

Within them was found the Fountain of Youth; the pebbles which give light, restore sight, and render the possessor invisible; the Sea of Sand was there, stored with fish of wondrous savour; and the River of Stones was there also; besides a subterranean stream whose sands were of gems. His territory produced the worm called "salamander," which lived in fire, and which wrought itself an incombustible envelope from which were manufactured robes for the presbyter, which were washed in flaming fire.

Thus the poison of various insects induces in plants the cellular new formation known as a gall-nut; a foreign body implanted in a limb may become encysted in a capsule of fibrous tissue; septic matter introduced into the abdomen will cause proliferation of the lining endo(epi)thelium; and placing an animal (salamander, Galeotti) in an ambient medium at a higher temperature than that to which it is accustomed naturally, increases the rapidity of celldivision of its epithelium with augmentation of the number of karyokinetic figures.