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ANURAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

Synonyms:

anuran; batrachian; frog; salientian; toad; toad frog

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("anuran" is a kind of...):

amphibian (cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anuran"):

South American poison toad (a South American toad)

tongueless frog (almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America)

sheep frog (mostly of Central America)

eastern narrow-mouthed toad; Gastrophryne carolinensis (small toad of southeastern United States)

Gastrophryne olivacea; western narrow-mouthed toad (small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America)

tree-frog; tree frog; tree toad (arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America)

spadefoot; spadefoot toad (a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot)

Bombina bombina; fire-bellied toad (toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches mixed with black on its underside)

Alytes cisternasi; midwife toad (similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians)

Alytes obstetricans; midwife toad; obstetrical toad (European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch)

true toad (tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin)

Liopelma hamiltoni (primitive New Zealand frog with four unwebbed toes on forefeet and five on hind feet)

Ascaphus trui; bell toad; ribbed toad; tailed frog; tailed toad (western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ)

tree-frog; tree frog (any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes)

crapaud; Leptodactylus pentadactylus; South American bullfrog (large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog)

barking frog; Hylactophryne augusti; robber frog (of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark)

robber frog (small terrestrial frog of tropical America)

leptodactylid; leptodactylid frog (toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal)

ranid; true frog (insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs)

Derivation:

anuran (relating to frogs and toads)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to frogs and toads

Synonyms:

anuran; batrachian; salientian

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Pertainym:

Anura (frogs, toads, tree toads)

Derivation:

anuran (any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species)

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