TRUE FROG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does true frog mean? 

• TRUE FROG (noun)
  The noun TRUE FROG has 1 sense:

1. insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs

  Familiarity information: TRUE FROG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUE FROG (noun)

Meaning:

Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ranid; true frog

Hypernyms ("true frog" 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 "true frog"):

frog legs (hind legs of frogs used as food; resemble chicken and cooked as chicken)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "true frog"):

grass frog; Rana temporaria (a common semiterrestrial European frog)

Rana tarahumarae; tarahumara frog (Mexican frog found within a jump or two of water)

pickerel frog; Rana palustris (a meadow frog of eastern North America)

goliath frog; Rana goliath (largest living frog; up to a foot and weighing up to 10 lbs; Africa)

cascades frog; Rana cascadae (mountain frog found near water; of United States northwest to California)

green frog; Rana clamitans; spring frog (similar to bullfrog; found in or near marshes and ponds; of United States and Canada)

bullfrog; Rana catesbeiana (largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice)

leopard frog; Rana pipiens; spring frog (common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots)

Rana sylvatica; wood frog; wood-frog (wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce)

Holonyms ("true frog" is a member of...):

family Ranidae; Ranidae (a family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs)