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    RANID

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    ranid; true frog

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("ranid" 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 "ranid"):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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