ANURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anura mean? 

• ANURA (noun)
  The noun ANURA has 1 sense:

1. frogs, toads, tree toads

  Familiarity information: ANURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Frogs, toads, tree toads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

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

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)

 Context examples 

An amphibian in the order Anura, which includes the toads.

(Frog, NCI Thesaurus)