Batrachian Definition

bə-trākē-ən
noun
An amphibian, especially a frog, or, in some classifications, a frog or a salamander but not a caecilian.
American Heritage Medicine

A frog or toad.

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adjective
Of, like, or concerning frogs and toads.
Webster's New World

Pertaining to a frog or toad.

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Other Word Forms of Batrachian

Noun

Singular:
batrachian
Plural:
batrachians

Origin of Batrachian

  • From modern Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Greek βατραχεια, neuter plural of adjective from βατραχος ‘frog’.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Greek batrakhos frog

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Batrachian Sentence Examples

  • A tadpole is the larva of a tailless Batrachian after the loss of the external gills and before the egress of the fore limbs (except in the aberrant Xenopus) and the resorption of the tail.

  • The ciliated larva escapes from the egg into the water and enters an intermediate host (leech, mollusc, arthropod, batrachian or fish) where it undergoes a metamorphosis into a second stage in which most of the adult organs are present.

  • Alytes obstetricans is a small toad-like Batrachian, two inches in length, of dull greyish coloration, plump form with warty skin and large eyes with vertical pupils.

  • A comparison, formerly suggested, with the two forms of leaf in Batrachian Ranunculi has not proved to hold good; the idea of an aquatic habit is contradicted by the anatomical structure, and the hypothesis that the plants were of scandent growth is more probable.

  • The last is remarkable for an extraordinary endoand exo-skeletal carapace, Dissorhophus being described by Cope (13) as a "batrachian armadillo."

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