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Definition of Hellbenders
1. hellbender [n] - See also: hellbender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellbenders
Literary usage of Hellbenders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Syracuse University Publications: Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory (1905)
"In the fall of 1903, another effort was made to obtain the desired material, and
a dozen or more live hellbenders were obtained as the result of a trip to ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... the eggs are deposited they are usually guarded for a time by the male, who
fights and drives away other hellbenders which attempt to eat the eggs. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1909)
"(hellbenders were frequent in the Conemaugh River at New Florence, Westmoreland Co.
Nothing but a few fish and crawfish were at this locality, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... which contains the American hellbenders, and the giant salamander of eastern
Asia, and Amphibia, with very mur- j reduced limbs and persistent ..."
5. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"... form throughout life, among these being the so-called hellbenders and mud-
puppies common to the rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys (see PI. ..."
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