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means A large, striped North American salamander that spends most of its life burrowed underground and only ventures out to breed in ponds.

from The 'tiger' half is straightforward English, borrowed for the bold yellow-and-black blotched pattern that recalls the big cat. 'Salamander' is much older, coming through French and Latin from Greek 'salamandra' — a creature ancient writers believed could live in or even extinguish fire, a legend likely inspired by real salamanders fleeing burning logs they'd been hiding in. So the name stitches a very old European fire-myth word onto a very plain, modern descriptive label.