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"ref": "1672, Thomas Browne, “Pseudodoxia Epidemica”, in Simon Wilkin, editor, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume 1, published 1852, page 292",
"text": "[…]and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: \"Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have found by experience that it is so far from quenching hot coals, that it dyeth immediately therein.\"",
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"ref": "2012 January 23, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-05-23, page 46",
"text": "Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.",
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"lang": "Thai",
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"sense": "amphibian",
"word": "ซาลาแมนเดอร์"
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"sense": "amphibian",
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"sense": "amphibian",
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "amphibian",
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"sense": "amphibian",
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"sense": "mythical creature",
"word": "salamandro"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "mythical creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "saramandā",
"sense": "mythical creature",
"word": "サラマンダー"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "mythical creature",
"tags": [
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"word": "салама́ндра"
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"code": "he",
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{
"ref": "2006, Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice [Gas Service Technology; 3], 4th edition, Oxford, Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier Newnes, page 35",
"text": "Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food […]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.",
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