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RANID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs
Synonyms:
ranid; true frog
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ranid" 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)
Meronyms (parts of "ranid"):
frog legs (hind legs of frogs used as food; resemble chicken and cooked as chicken)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ranid"):
Rana sylvatica; wood-frog; wood frog (wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce)
leopard frog; Rana pipiens; spring frog (common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots)
bullfrog; Rana catesbeiana (largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice)
green frog; Rana clamitans; spring frog (similar to bullfrog; found in or near marshes and ponds; of United States and Canada)
cascades frog; Rana cascadae (mountain frog found near water; of United States Northwest to California)
goliath frog; Rana goliath (largest living frog; up to a foot and weighing up to 10 lbs; Africa)
pickerel frog; Rana palustris (a meadow frog of eastern North America)
Rana tarahumarae; tarahumara frog (Mexican frog found within a jump or two of water)
grass frog; Rana temporaria (a common semiterrestrial European frog)
Holonyms ("ranid" is a member of...):
family Ranidae; Ranidae (a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs)
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