English > ranid: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs. |
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| Synonym | true frog |
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| Member of | Ranidae, family Ranidae | A family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
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| Parts | frog legs | hind legs of frogs used as food |
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| Narrower | bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana | largest North American frog |
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| cascades frog, Rana cascadae | mountain frog found near water |
| goliath frog, Rana goliath | largest living frog |
| grass frog, Rana temporaria | A common semiterrestrial European frog |
| green frog, spring frog, Rana clamitans | Similar to bullfrog |
| leopard frog, spring frog, Rana pipiens | Common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
| pickerel frog, Rana palustris | A meadow frog of eastern North America |
| tarahumara frog, Rana tarahumarae | Mexican frog found within a jump or two of water |
| wood-frog, wood frog, Rana sylvatica | wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
| Broader | frog, toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian, salientian | Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping |
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| Spanish | rana, ranid |
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| Catalan | granota, ranid, rànid |
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