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ORDER ANURA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Frogs, toads, tree toads
Synonyms:
Anura; Batrachia; order Anura; order Batrachia; order Salientia; Salientia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Anura" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order Anura"):
family Ranidae; Ranidae (a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs)
family Leptodactylidae; Leptodactylidae (New World frogs; in some classifications essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae)
family Polypedatidae; Polypedatidae (Old World tree frogs)
Ascaphidae; family Ascaphidae (family of one species of frog: tailed frog)
family Leiopelmatidae; family Liopelmidae; Leiopelmatidae; Liopelmidae (primitive New Zealand frogs)
Bufonidae; family Bufonidae (true toads)
Discoglossidae; family Discoglossidae (family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue)
family Pelobatidae; Pelobatidae (the amphibian family of spadefoot toads)
family Hylidae; Hylidae (the amphibian family of tree frogs)
Brevicipitidae; family Brevicipitidae; family Microhylidae; Microhylidae (narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide)
family Pipidae; Pipidae (tongueless frogs)
Holonyms ("order Anura" is a member of...):
amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)
