Synonyms for amphibious
æmˈfɪb i əsam·phibi·ous

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1. amphibious, amphibianadjective

   relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

   Synonyms:
   amphibian

   Antonyms:
   aquatic, submerged, subaquatic, subaqueous, submersed, onshore, overland, marine, terrestrial, underwater, semiaquatic

2. amphibiousadjective

   operating or living on land and in water

   "amphibious vehicles"; "amphibious operations"; "amphibious troops"; "frogs are amphibious animals"

   Synonyms:
   amphibian

   Antonyms:
   submersed, marine, underwater, submerged, subaquatic, semiaquatic, aquatic, terrestrial, onshore, subaqueous, overland

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1. List of paraphrases for "amphibious":

   ground-water, amphibian

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1. Lawrence Peter Berra:

   He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

2. Sam Tangredi:

   However, it was the overall might of US industry and the size of the US fleet (particularly its logistics and amphibious ships) that ground out victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy.

3. Vasily Kashin:

   Before we had to use amphibious landing ships to carry supplies to Syria. But now they are not sufficient and we are creating a new class of military transports which are part of the navy but in fact are pure cargo ships.

4. Sidharth Kaushal:

   The Taiwanese air force would have to sink around 40 % of the amphibious landing forces of the PLA in order to render this sort of mission infeasible.

5. Professor Auke Ijspeert:

   We're now making an amphibious robot that will have the same swimming and walking properties, but will be a bit more sturdy, here clearly there's a big interest of having a robot that can crawl, go through small spaces, can swim a bit. And if you have a collapsed building; you think there are survivors, you will not send a dog because maybe the building is too dangerous. It may be very interesting to have an amphibious robot that you remote control; see if there are survivors and decide then if it's worth sending a team or not.