Definition of Andrias
:a genus of large fossil Miocene salamanders scarcely distinct from the recent genus Cryptobranchus
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Andrias
noun
An·dri·as
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ˈandrēəs
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Origin and Etymology of andrias
New Latin, from Greek, image of a man, from andr-, anēr man; from the fact that the first specimen found was believed to be the remains of a man destroyed by the Deluge
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