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  • noun zoology Any of the frog family Microhylidae.

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Examples

  • We caught blunt-faced microhylid frogs, with tiny stupid eyes crowded up just over their nostrils and fat low bodies shaped like dollops of chocolate pudding.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • We caught blunt-faced microhylid frogs, with tiny stupid eyes crowded up just over their nostrils and fat low bodies shaped like dollops of chocolate pudding.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • We caught blunt-faced microhylid frogs, with tiny stupid eyes crowded up just over their nostrils and fat low bodies shaped like dollops of chocolate pudding.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Noteworthy species include Calotes liolepis, the rarest of all Agamids on the island, the rare rough-nose horned lizard Ceratophora aspera, restricted to part of Sri Lanka's wet zone, and Ramella palmata, a rare endemic microhylid.

    Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka 2008

  • Of the roughly 30 known microhylid species, many are small Asian tree frogs,

    National Geographic News 2010

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