Synonyms for amphibious
æmˈfɪb i əsam·phibi·ous

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1. amphibious, amphibianadjective

   relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

   Synonyms:
   amphibian

   Antonyms:
   aquatic, submerged, subaquatic, subaqueous, submersed, onshore, overland, marine, terrestrial, underwater, semiaquatic

2. amphibiousadjective

   operating or living on land and in water

   "amphibious vehicles"; "amphibious operations"; "amphibious troops"; "frogs are amphibious animals"

   Synonyms:
   amphibian

   Antonyms:
   submersed, marine, underwater, submerged, subaquatic, semiaquatic, aquatic, terrestrial, onshore, subaqueous, overland

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1. List of paraphrases for "amphibious":

   ground-water, amphibian

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1. Grant Newsham:

   Capabilities haven't developed as quickly or as fully as they might, the Symposium will hopefully coalesce these ongoing but somewhat disjointed efforts towards amphibious capability.

2. Vasily Kashin:

   Before we had to use amphibious landing ships to carry supplies to Syria. But now they are not sufficient and we are creating a new class of military transports which are part of the navy but in fact are pure cargo ships.

3. Lawrence Peter Berra:

   He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

4. The Marine:

   Data collected and lessons learned during OT-1 will lay the groundwork for F-35B deployments aboard U.S. Navy amphibious carriers now that the U.S. Marine Corps' F-35B Lightning II aircraft reached initial operational capability (IOC) on July 31, 2015.

5. Sidharth Kaushal:

   The Taiwanese air force would have to sink around 40 % of the amphibious landing forces of the PLA in order to render this sort of mission infeasible.