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# olm

noun (an olm, olms)

«olm» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x1)
- Olms can survive for years without eating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x2)
- Its pink colour earned the olm the nickname «human fish». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x3)
- People once believed olms were baby dragons. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/#x5)
- The olm breathes using feathery red gills. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «olm» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/olm/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«olm» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/olm.html) on Mova free.