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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to vertebrate amphibians without tails, such as frogs and toads.
  2. n. A vertebrate amphibian.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to the Batrachia, especially frogs and toads.
  2. n. One of the Batrachia.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A frog or toad.
  2. adj. Pertaining to a frog or toad.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to frogs and toads
  2. n. any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

Etymologies

  1. From modern Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Greek βατραχεια, neuter plural of adjective from βατραχος ‘frog’. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Greek batrakhos, frog. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “At present no toad-eating is connected with the acceptance of hospitality, or, if occasionally a small "batrachian" is offered, it is so well disguised by an accomplished _chef_, and served on such exquisite old Dresden, that it slips down with very little effort.”

    Worldly Ways and Byways

  • “Even though there's not a single tentacle or a squamous batrachian fish-person in sight.”

    "Enduring notions, new found promise, that the end will never come."

  • “More immediately dangerous was batrachian squeak Gaunt's promise to "give Galloway a good slapping" (repeated thrice) in the boxing ring for charity.”

    Archive 2008-02-01

  • “Determinedly the batrachian thrust again with its spear, this time following through with its blade.”

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner

  • “Rising from the swamp itself, a band of Rillyti menaced them from the trail ahead—more than a dozen of the batrachian creatures.”

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner

  • “I did her batrachian lips, her bulbous eyes and scaly hips/She's got secrets, but they'll soon be mine/O Father Dagon smiles upon me from the bas-relief/Something's fishy down in Devil Reef...”

    For the Love of a Daughter

  • “VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Maureen Dowd: More Con Than Neo'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'We are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.”

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Maureen Dowd: More Con Than Neo

  • “We are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.”

    Printing: Sunday Newsletter-- Why You See Anne Coulter Ads on OpEdNews

  • “But this chilly April, we are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.”

    Archive 2007-04-01

  • “Besides Ophidian, the other non - ine animal-like adjectives I know of are: simian: ape-like batrachian: frog/toad-like chiropterian: bat-like lepidopteran: butterfly-like (why not - ian?)”

    Breakfast in Bed

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. anuran

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. amphibian

hyponyms (34)

Words that are more specific

  1. tailed frog
  2. tree toad
  3. spadefoot toad
  4. tree frog
  5. crapaud
  6. ranid
  1. hylactophryne augusti
  2. barking frog
  3. alytes cisternasi
  4. leptodactylid frog
  5. true toad
  6. midwife toad
  1. eastern narrow-mouthed toad
  2. western narrow-mouthed toad
  3. gastrophryne olivacea
  4. south american bullfrog
  5. tailed toad
  6. spadefoot
  1. alytes obstetricans
  2. robber frog
  3. liopelma hamiltoni
  4. tongueless frog
  5. bell toad
  6. leptodactylid
  1. true frog
  2. leptodactylus pentadactylus
  3. sheep frog
  4. south american poison toad
  5. fire-bellied toad
  6. gastrophryne carolinensis
  1. ribbed toad
  2. obstetrical toad
  3. bombina bombina
  4. ascaphus trui

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. corpselike
  2. ?-opioid
  3. mudfish
  4. devils'
  1. red-tape
  2. dodgeball
  3. full-voiced
  4. meerkat
  1. chemic
  2. wood-wind
  3. full-toned
  4. beings'
  1. cappella
  2. whip-poor-will
  3. hoh
  4. football
  1. receptor-site
  2. concretionary
  3. baseball
  4. villip
  1. castrati
  2. steamboat
  3. all-male
  4. phylogenetic

reverse dictionary (27)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tree frog
  2. batrachiate
  3. salamander
  4. tympanomalleal
  5. omosternum
  1. phaneroglossate
  2. proteroglossate
  3. rupeoptereal
  4. saurobatrachian
  5. caudate
  1. aglossate
  2. batracholite
  3. ear-gland
  4. firmisternal
  5. intercentrum
  1. land-pike
  2. dogfish
  3. flying frog
  4. frog
  5. newt
  1. platydactyl
  2. rachitomous
  3. rosary
  4. siredon
  5. tadpole
  1. toad
  2. urodele

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  • Louises Window-panes fogged by her slow batrachian breath. Cold Comfort Farm. Feb 23, 2013

  • knitandpurl ""You idiot. Snakes don't cough."
    "How do you know? You're not an ophiologist. You're a batrachianist.""
    Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 167 Sep 2, 2011

  • chained_bear "'...now that I come to recollect, I found no batrachians of any kind on Rodriguez; and I could scarcely make an intelligent native understand what I meant by a frog, though I imitated his motions in a very lively manner, and his cry.'"
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 272 Feb 23, 2008

  • jaime_d from Middlemarch Sep 30, 2007

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