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XENOPUS LAEVIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tongueless frog native to Africa; established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals
Synonyms:
African clawed frog; Xenopus laevis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Xenopus laevis" is a kind of...):
tongueless frog (almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America)
Holonyms ("Xenopus laevis" is a member of...):
genus Xenopus; Xenopus (an African clawed frog; in some classifications made the type genus of a separate family Xenopodidae)
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