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    TREE-FROG

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toesplay

    Synonyms:

    tree-frog; tree frog

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("tree-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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    tree-frog; tree frog; tree toad

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("tree-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)

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

    Hyla crucifer; spring peeper (a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring)

    Hyla regilla; Pacific tree toad (the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America)

    canyon treefrog; Hyla arenicolor (a small chiefly ground dweller that stays within easy jumping distance of water; of United States southwest and northern Mexico)

    chameleon tree frog (a form of tree toad)

    cricket frog (either of two frogs with a clicking call)

    chorus frog (any of several small North American frogs having a loud call)

    lowland burrowing treefrog; northern casque-headed frog; Pternohyla fodiens (terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head; of the United States southwest)

    Holonyms ("tree-frog" is a member of...):

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

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