Adjective : amphibious vehicles. ,amphibious troops. From Dictionary.com.
By the time they get their 'act' together, the kataks will've amphibiously landed on PR's shores. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Asiatic fort was to dive for the LAND tortoises, which we flung in on purpose, as they amphibiously crawled along the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals]
They are people considerably advanced in rural arts, living amphibiously on a rough coast, and drawing half their food from the sea, and half from the land. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
The Nabob Asoph ul Dowlah was deprived of a large part of his inheritance, -- I mean the province of Benares, attached by a very feeble and precarious tenure to our dominions; the army fixed to a permanent station in a remote line of his frontier, with an augmented and perpetual subsidy; a new army, amphibiously composed of troops in his service and pay, commanded by English officers of our own nomination, for the defence of his new conquests; and his own natural troops annihilated, or alienated by the insufficiency of his revenue for all his disbursements, and the prior claims of those which our authority or influence commanded: in a word, he became a vassal of the government; but he still possessed an ostensible sovereignty. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
Mesopotamia, to think amphibiously. From Wordnik.com. [A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden] Reference
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