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frog

Definitions

verb

  1. hunt frogs for food

noun

  1. a decorative loop of braid or cord
  2. a person of French descent
  3. any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

Examples

Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.

In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.

A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.

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toad

Definitions

noun

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

Examples

While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr

In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone.

A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.

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