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TREE-FROG

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes

Synonyms:

tree-frog; tree frog

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tree-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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America

Synonyms:

tree-frog; tree frog; tree toad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tree-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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree-frog"):

Hyla crucifer; spring peeper (a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring)

Hyla regilla; Pacific tree toad (the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America)

canyon treefrog; Hyla arenicolor (a small chiefly ground dweller that stays within easy jumping distance of water; of United States southwest and northern Mexico)

chameleon tree frog (a form of tree toad)

cricket frog (either of two frogs with a clicking call)

chorus frog (any of several small North American frogs having a loud call)

lowland burrowing treefrog; northern casque-headed frog; Pternohyla fodiens (terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head; of the United States southwest)

Holonyms ("tree-frog" is a member of...):

family Hylidae; Hylidae (the amphibian family of tree frogs)

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