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Definition of Fire salamander
1. Noun. European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots.
Group relationships: Genus Salamandra, Salamandra
Generic synonyms: Salamander
Definition of Fire salamander
1. Noun. A medium-sized black salamander with yellow spots. It is related to the tiger salamander, ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Salamander
Literary usage of Fire salamander
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"The general colour of the Spotted or Fire-salamander is black, ... The Fire-salamander
has a wide range, namely the whole of Central, Southern, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... FIRE-SALAMANDER. The common spotted species of salamander in Europe.
See SALAMANDER FIRE-SHIP, or FIRE-RAFT. A floating «raft, loaded with combustibles, ..."
3. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"D., New York City: fire salamander, Spotted Salamander, Red-Backed Salamander (4
specimens). Sand Lizard, Chameleon. VALENTINE, MYRA, New York City: ..."
4. Germany by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1906)
"It is not exactly known what they are;2 they lead astray wanderers in moorlands
1 Heine did not know what a fire-salamander was. ..."
5. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"fire salamander of Europe is Sola mandra maculosa, a species about six inches long.
It is black, with bright yellow spots, and the glands of the skin ..."
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