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  • noun Plural form of batrachian.

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Examples

  • Allowing for the unfortunate slip of the pen by which "batrachians" are substituted for "fresh-water polyps," how can we fail to admire the severity of the scientific method employed in reaching these interesting conclusions?

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • Allowing for the unfortunate slip of the pen by which "batrachians" are substituted for "fresh-water polyps," how can we fail to admire the severity of the scientific method employed in reaching these interesting conclusions?

    The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

  • Springing, I hazard, from the stegocephalia, the ancestor of the frogs, these batrachians followed a different line of evolution and acquired the upright position just as man did his from the four-footed folk.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • The movement of the batrachians over the bridge had ceased.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Flashes of intense, green light, mingled with gleams like lightning strokes of concentrated moon rays, sprang from behind the wall — sprang and struck and burned upon the scales of the batrachians.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lustrous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once grotesque and formidable.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • These half-human, highly developed batrachians they call the

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • To her the handmaiden spoke, pointing to the batrachians who stood, paws and forearms melted beneath the robes they had gathered.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • The sea of crimson lacquer, with its floating moons of luminous colour — this bow of prismed stone leaping to the weird isle crowned by the anomalous, aureate excrescence — the half human batrachians-the elfland through which we had passed, with all its hidden wonders and terrors — I felt the foundations of my cherished knowledge shaking.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • The batrachians are low down in the scale of nature, but they have a determinate period of existence, as do all other forms of life.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

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