Andrias

noun

An·​dri·​as

ˈandrēəs

: a genus of large fossil Miocene salamanders scarcely distinct from the recent genus Cryptobranchus

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

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