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# olm

«olm» in Mova's school dictionary: **a pale, blind salamander (an amphibian) that lives in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an olm, olms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An olm is a pale, blind salamander (an amphibian) that lives in dark underground cave waters in southern Europe, especially Slovenia and Croatia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#m1)

2) Olms are pinkish-white, with tiny legs and red feathery gills, and can live for many decades without much food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, the olm is an example of adaptation to darkness: it has no working eyes and finds food using smell, hearing and electricity sense. Local people once thought olms were baby dragons washed out of caves. Phrases: «the olm», «cave salamander».

### examples

- The olm lives in dark caves and has no eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x1)
- Olms can survive for years without eating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x2)
- Its pink colour earned the olm the nickname «human fish». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x3)
- People once believed olms were baby dragons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x4)
- We watched a video of an olm swimming in a cave pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x5)
- The olm breathes using feathery red gills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x6)

### note

Countable noun; starts with a vowel so «an olm». Pronounced to rhyme with «holm» (ohlm). It is a rare word, also called «proteus». It is an amphibian, not a fish or a lizard.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «olm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.