Amphibia

[am-fib-ee-uh]

Am·phib·i·a

[am-fib-ee-uh]
noun
the class comprising the amphibians.

Origin:
1600–10; < Neo-Latin < Greek amphíbia (zôia) (animals) living a double life, neuter plural of amphíbios. See amphibious
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Amphibia is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
WordNet
amphibia

noun
the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians 
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