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Mud Puppy

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Noun

1. mud puppy, necturus maculosus

aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills

2. cryptobranchus alleganiensis, hellbender, mud puppy

large salamander of North American rivers and streams

3. ambystoma mexicanum, axolotl, mud puppy

larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mud Puppy

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any of a genus (Necturus, family Proteidae) of gilled, aquatic North American salamanders that hide during the day in mud along the bottom of freshwater streams or lakes

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mud Puppy

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n. pl. mud·pup·pies also mud pup·pies
Any of several large eastern North American aquatic salamanders of the genus Necturus, especially N. maculosus, that have feathery dark red external gills. Also called water dog.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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