Definition of Amphibiousness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being amphibious. ¹

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Definition of Amphibiousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphibiousness

amphibianlike
amphibians
amphibiological
amphibiology
amphibiotic
amphibiotica
amphibious
amphibious aircraft
amphibious car
amphibious demonstration
amphibious landing
amphibious operation
amphibious vehicle
amphibiously
amphibiousness
amphiblastic
amphibole
amphibole group
amphiboles
amphibolic
amphibolic fistula
amphibolies
amphibolite
amphibolites
amphibolitic
amphibologia
amphibological
amphibologically
amphibologies

Literary usage of Amphibiousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Business Organization and Combination: An Analysis of the Evolution and by Lewis Henry Haney (1916)
"The ease with which it enables the concentration of control in the hands of a few, the secrecy and deviousness of its interests, the " amphibiousness " of ..."

2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1920)
"So, too, in the upper Palaeozoic, the fact that some of the Amphibia were losing their "amphibiousness" by a retardation of hatching of their eggs, ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Having the faculty of living in two elements air and water. Figuratively, Of a mixed nature. Amphibiousness, (am-f ib'-e-ns-nes) ni Capability of living in ..."

4. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1860)
"John, were he possible, would be interesting as a specimen of moral amphibiousness, but a very ''uncanny" servant about one's house. ..."

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