Amphibiotic
living on land during the adult stage and in water during a larval stage.
adjective
having an aquatic larval form and a terrestrial adult form, as amphibians
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- Amphibolic
equivocal; uncertain; changing; ambiguous.
- Amphiboly
ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in the duke yet lives that henry shall depose. historical examples the phrase transcendental object occurs once in the second -n-logy and twice in the note on amphiboly. a commentary to kant’s ‘critique of pure reason’ […]