amphibious
adjective
Examples of amphibious in a Sentence
Megan Rose, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2024
The 843-foot amphibious assault ship, which carries a mix of aircraft, deployed on Monday for the first time in five years.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
Instead of launching traditional amphibious assaults, these nimbler groups are intended as an enabler for a larger joint force.
—Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
In the latest attack on Saturday, at the fleet's headquarters in Sevastopol, Ukraine sank an amphibious landing ship, damaged two others and also hit an intelligence vessel.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
The landing ship can carry tanks, troops and other cargo to support amphibious assaults, with doors in the bow that open onto land without the ship needing to dock.
—Illia Novikov The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
With Russian ships driven far from Ukrainian shores, the threat of an amphibious attack is gone.
—Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024
Ukraine said the vessels hit were two amphibious landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov.
—Andrew Carey, Maria Kostenko and Josh Pennington, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
Finding more early forms of amphibious life is essential for building out the early branches of the amphibian family tree.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Latin amphibius "living both on land and in water" (borrowed from Greek amphíbios "living a double life, living both on land and in the water," from amphi- amphi- + -bios "having such a mode of life," derivative of bíos "life") + -ous — more at quick entry 1
1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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amphibious
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from Greek amphibios "living a double life," from amphi- "around, on both sides" and bios "mode of life"
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