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salamander is pronounced in four syllables
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An example use of salamander in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
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meanings of salamander
noun:
The pouched gopher, Geomys tuza, of the southern United States.
A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.
A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
A large poker.
Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
Portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
verb:
To use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.
salamander frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR
the word salamander occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics salamander can be related to
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