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TONGUELESS FROG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tongueless frog mean?
• TONGUELESS FROG (noun)
The noun TONGUELESS FROG has 1 sense:
1. almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America
Familiarity information: TONGUELESS FROG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("tongueless 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 "tongueless frog"):
Pipa americana; Pipa pipa; Surinam toad (a South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back)
African clawed frog; Xenopus laevis (a tongueless frog native to Africa; established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals)
Holonyms ("tongueless frog" is a member of...):
family Pipidae; Pipidae (tongueless frogs)
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