Usually means: Amphibian, moist skin, typically terrestrial.
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  1. salamander: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. salamander: Merriam-Webster
  3. salamander: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. salamander: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. salamander: Collins English Dictionary
  6. salamander: Vocabulary.com
  7. Salamander, salamander: Wordnik
  8. salamander: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. salamander: Wiktionary
  10. salamander: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. salamander: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. salamander: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. salamander: Dictionary.com
  14. salamander: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. salamander: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Salamander (TV series), Salamander (anime), Salamander (arcade game), Salamander (disambiguation), Salamander (legendary creature), Salamander (metallurgy), Salamander (mythology), Salamander (ship), Salamander (video game), Salamander: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Salamander: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. salamander: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. salamander: Rhymezone
  20. Salamander: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. salamander: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Salamander: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. salamander: FreeDictionary.org
  24. salamander: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. salamander: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. salamander: Encyclopedia

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  2. salamander: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salamander: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. salamander: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. salamander: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
noun:  (mythology) 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.
noun:  (cooking) A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
noun:  (cooking) A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
noun:  (archaic) A pouched gopher (Geomys pinetis etc.)
noun:  (UK, obsolete) A large poker.
noun:  (metallurgy) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
noun:  (construction) A portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A fire-eater (performer who pretends to swallow fire).
verb:  (transitive) To use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.

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