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    ANURA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Frogs, toads, tree toadsplay

    Synonyms:

    Anura; Batrachia; order Anura; order Batrachia; order Salientia; Salientia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Anura" is a kind of...):

    animal order (the order of animals)

    Meronyms (members of "Anura"):

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

    family Leptodactylidae; Leptodactylidae (New World frogs; in some classifications essentially coextensive with the family Bufonidae)

    family Polypedatidae; Polypedatidae (Old World tree frogs)

    Ascaphidae; family Ascaphidae (family of one species of frog: tailed frog)

    family Leiopelmatidae; family Liopelmidae; Leiopelmatidae; Liopelmidae (primitive New Zealand frogs)

    Bufonidae; family Bufonidae (true toads)

    Discoglossidae; family Discoglossidae (family of Old World toads having a fixed disklike tongue)

    family Pelobatidae; Pelobatidae (the amphibian family of spadefoot toads)

    family Hylidae; Hylidae (the amphibian family of tree frogs)

    Brevicipitidae; family Brevicipitidae; family Microhylidae; Microhylidae (narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide)

    family Pipidae; Pipidae (tongueless frogs)

    Holonyms ("Anura" is a member of...):

    amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)

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