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ROBBER FROG

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small terrestrial frog of tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("robber frog" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("robber frog" is a member of...):

Eleutherodactylus; genus Eleutherodactylus (completely terrestrial robber frogs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark

Synonyms:

barking frog; Hylactophryne augusti; robber frog

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("robber frog" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("robber frog" is a member of...):

genus Hylactophryne; Hylactophryne (barking frogs)

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