amphibiousの意味・使い方・発音

amphibious

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amphibious: amphibious: [17] The Greek prefix amphimeant ‘both, on both sides’ (hence an amphitheatre [14]: Greek and Roman theatres were semicircular, so two joined together, completely surrounding the arena, formed an amphitheatre). Combination with bios ‘life’ (as in biology) produced the Greek adjective amphibios, literally ‘leading a double life’. From the beginning of its career as an English word it was used in a very wide, general sense of ‘combining two completely distinct or opposite conditions or qualities’ (Joseph Addison, for example, used it as an 18th-century equivalent of modern unisex), but that meaning has now almost entirely given way to the word’s zoological application.

At first, amphibious meant broadly ‘living on both land and water’, and so was applied by some scientists to, for example, seals; but around 1819 the zoologist William Macleay proposed the more precise application, since generally accepted, to frogs, newts, and other members of the class Amphibia whose larvae have gills but whose adults breathe with lungs.
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amphibious (adj.): 1640s, from Greek amphibios "having a double life" (see amphibian). Of motor vehicles, from 1915.

1. A third brigade is at sea，ready for an amphebious assault.: もう一つの旅団は海上で待機し、両棲攻撃の準備をしている。

2.At home both in water and on land，the platypus is amphebious .

カモノハシの家は水中でも陸上でもよい.両生類である。

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3から。The British Army used these amphebious crafts in military operations in Borneo.

4.They proposed a heavy and concentrated amphebious assault.: 彼らは猛烈で集中的な両生類攻撃を計画している。

5.At last I found this amphebious creature.

最後にこの両生類を見つけました。