Axolotl Definition

ăksə-lŏtl
axolotls
noun
axolotls
Any of several salamanders of the genus Ambystoma of Mexico and the western United States that do not go through metamorphosis, becoming sexually mature while in an aquatic larval form with external gills.
American Heritage
Any of various members of a genus (Ambystoma) of dark salamanders of Mexico and the W U.S. that mature sexually and breed while remaining in the gilled larval stage due to a thyroid deficiency.
Webster's New World

An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico, Ambystoma mexicanum.

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Noun

Singular:
axolotl
Plural:
axolotls

Origin of Axolotl

  • From Nahuatl axolotl.

    From Wiktionary

  • Nahuatl

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Axolotl Sentence Examples

  • Now it has been stated that in the lakes near Mexico City, where it was first discovered, the axolotl never transforms into an Amblystoma.

  • When once sexually ripe the axolotl are apparently incapable of changing, but their ancestral course of evolution is still latent in them, and will, if favoured by circumstances, reappear in following generations.

  • Gadow during his visit to Mexico in the summer of 1902, we are now better informed on the conditions under which the axolotl lives near Mexico City.

  • At the same time, in the Jardin des Plantes, the single female axolotl also spawned, twice in succession, and a large number of young were successfully reared.

  • Nevertheless, in the axolotl the latent tendency can still be revived, as we have seen above and as is proved by the experiments of Marie von Chauvin.

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