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batrachian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /bəˈtɹeɪkɪən/

Etymology

From New Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Ancient Greek βατράχεια (batrákheia), neuter plural of adjective from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).

Meanings

1. Pertaining to or resembling a frog or toad.
   • At this Lena smiled again with that mirthless batrachian grin. 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 31:
   • 2000 The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "The Innsmouth Look" I dig her batrachian lips / Her bulbous eyes and scaly hips
   • His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey. 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
   • Near-synonyms: froggish, froggy, froglike, frogly, ranid, ranine, toadish, toadlike, toadly, toady
   • Anon the minnow-bucket will emit '"batrachian"' sobs. 1905, Eugene Field, Songs And Other Verses:

Forms

Synonyms

froggish · toadish · toadly · frogly · ranid · ranine · froggy · froglike · toady · toadlike

batrachian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bəˈtɹeɪkɪən/

Etymology

From New Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Ancient Greek βατράχεια (batrákheia), neuter plural of adjective from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).

Meanings

1. (rare) Any frog (narrow sense) or toad.
   • The warmth of his defence of the toad led me to suspect uneasily that a close search of his quarters would pretty certainly reveal a comfortable vivarium somewhere, bursting with the little batrachians. 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 421:

Forms

Hypernyms

vertebrate · organism · lissamphibian · creature · amphibian · animal

Synonyms

anuran · frog

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