frog : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a tongueless frog native to Africa; established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals
  Xenopus laevis.
  

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• noun of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark
  Hylactophryne augusti; barking frog.
  

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• noun mountain frog found near water; of United States Northwest to California
  Rana cascadae.
  

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• noun a form of tree toad
  

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• noun any of several small North American frogs having a loud call
  

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• noun either of two frogs with a clicking call
  

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• a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); so called from its chirping.

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• (Railroads), a frog adapted for tracks that cross at right angles.

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• noun a cricket frog of eastern United States
  Acris gryllus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food.

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• (Zoöl.), an East Indian tree frog of the genus Rhacophorus, having very large and broadly webbed feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make very long leaps.

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• a popular name for a large puffball.

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• one who eats frogs; a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Frog hopper.

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• (Zoöl.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants. The larvæ are inclosed are frothy liquid called cuckoo spit or frog spit.

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• noun a swimming kick; knees are drawn upward and outward so the legs can be brought together when fully extended
  

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• noun hind legs of frogs used as food; resemble chicken and cooked as chicken
  

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• (Bot.), the yellow water lily (Nuphar).

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• noun any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria
  
• noun orchid having hooded long-bracted green to yellow-green flowers suffused with purple
  Coeloglossum viride.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the frothy exudation of the frog hopper; called also frog spittle. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

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• noun very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe
  

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• noun European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers
  Hydrocharis morsus-ranae; frogbit.
  

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• noun simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed
  Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frogbit family; Hydrocharitaceae; family Hydrocharidaceae.
  

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Frog"s`-bit" noun

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1. (Bot.) Frogbit.

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• noun largest living frog; up to a foot and weighing up to 10 lbs; Africa
  Rana goliath.
  

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• noun a common semiterrestrial European frog
  Rana temporaria.
  

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• noun similar to bullfrog; found in or near marshes and ponds; of United States and Canada
  Rana clamitans; green frog.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids.

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• noun insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America
  horned toad; horned lizard.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any tree frog of the genus Phyllomedusa.

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• noun common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots
  leopard frog; Rana pipiens.
  

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• noun toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal
  leptodactylid.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Nototrema.

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• (Zoöl.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus).

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• noun terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head; of the United States southwest
  lowland burrowing treefrog; Pternohyla fodiens.
  

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• noun a cricket frog of eastern and central United States
  Acris crepitans.
  

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• noun a meadow frog of eastern North America
  Rana palustris.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.

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• (Zoöl.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage.

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• noun of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark
  Hylactophryne augusti; barking frog.
  
• noun small terrestrial frog of tropical America
  

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• an American spotted frog (Rana halecina); so called because it usually appears at the time when the shad begin to run in the rivers.

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• noun mostly of Central America
  

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• noun similar to bullfrog; found in or near marshes and ponds; of United States and Canada
  Rana clamitans; green frog.
  
• noun common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots
  leopard frog; Rana pipiens.
  

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• noun western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ
  Ascaphus trui; tailed toad; ribbed toad; bell toad.
  

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• noun Mexican frog found within a jump or two of water
  Rana tarahumarae.
  

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• noun any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
  toad; batrachian; salientian; anuran; frog.
  

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• noun almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America
  

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• noun arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
  tree toad; tree frog.
  
• noun any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes
  tree frog.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Same as Tree toad. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to Chiromantis, Rhacophorus, and allied genera of the family Ranidæ. Their toes are furnished with suckers for adhesion. The flying frog (see under Flying) is an example.

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• noun arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
  tree toad; tree frog.
  
• noun any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes
  tree frog.
  

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• noun insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs
  ranid.
  

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• noun wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce
  wood frog; Rana sylvatica.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a common North American frog (Rana sylvatica) which lives chiefly in the woods, except during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown, with a black stripe on each side of the head.

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• noun wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce
  wood frog; Rana sylvatica.
  

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