Meanings (ES + gloss)
salamandra
A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies.[…]The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic,…
[…]and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that it is…
salamandra
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.
"There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathio…
“Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander. He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …”
salamandra
A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food[…]. This may comprise sets of burners firin…
The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.
Phrases
Abe's salamanderJapanese giant salamanderKorean crevice salamanderLarch Mountain salamanderStrinati's cave salamanderalpine salamandercave salamanderfire salamandergerrymandergiant salamanderklip-salamanderland-salamanderlimestone salamanderlongtail salamanderlungless salamandermarbled salamandermole salamandernorthern slimy salamanderravine salamandersalamanderlikeseal salamanderspectacled salamanderspotted salamanderspring salamandertiger salamanderwater-salamanderzigzag salamander
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