amphibious vehicle
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means of transport, viable on land as well as on (or under) water
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- land vehicle
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- Assault Amphibious Vehicles, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Port Ploce, Croatia, March 24, 1998. Assigned to the Strategic Reserve Force of the Stabilization Force.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian) is a vehicle that works both on land and on or under water. Amphibious vehicles include amphibious bicycles, ATVs, cars, buses, trucks, railway vehicles, combat vehicles, and hovercraft.
Classic landing craft are not amphibious vehicles as they do not work on land, although they are part of amphibious warfare. Ground effect vehicles, such as ekranoplans, would likely crash on any but the flattest of landmasses so are also not considered to be amphibious vehicles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “amphibious vehicle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.