FROG (frogged, frogging)

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Irregular inflected forms: frogged    , frogging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does frog mean? 

• FROG (noun)
  The noun FROG has 3 senses:

1. any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

2. a person of French descent

3. a decorative loop of braid or cord

  Familiarity information: FROG used as a noun is uncommon.

• FROG (verb)
  The verb FROG has 1 sense:

1. hunt frogs for food

  Familiarity information: FROG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

anuran; batrachian; frog; salientian; toad; toad frog

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

amphibian (cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form)

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

Alytes obstetricans; midwife toad; obstetrical toad (European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch)

South American poison toad (a South American toad)

tongueless frog (almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America)

sheep frog (mostly of Central America)

eastern narrow-mouthed toad; Gastrophryne carolinensis (small toad of southeastern United States)

Gastrophryne olivacea; western narrow-mouthed toad (small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America)

tree-frog; tree frog; tree toad (arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America)

spadefoot; spadefoot toad (a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot)

Bombina bombina; fire-bellied toad (toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches mixed with black on its underside)

Alytes cisternasi; midwife toad (similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians)

ranid; true frog (insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs)

true toad (tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin)

Liopelma hamiltoni (primitive New Zealand frog with four unwebbed toes on forefeet and five on hind feet)

Ascaphus trui; bell toad; ribbed toad; tailed frog; tailed toad (western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ)

tree-frog; tree frog (any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes)

crapaud; Leptodactylus pentadactylus; South American bullfrog (large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog)

barking frog; Hylactophryne augusti; robber frog (of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark)

robber frog (small terrestrial frog of tropical America)

leptodactylid; leptodactylid frog (toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal)

Derivation:

frog (hunt frogs for food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person of French descent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

frog; Gaul

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

French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman (a person of French nationality)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A decorative loop of braid or cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

• FROG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they frog    ... he / she / it frogs   
Past simple: frogged   
Past participle: frogged   
-ing form: frogging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hunt frogs for food

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "frog" is one way to...):

capture; catch (capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

frog (any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species)

 Context examples 

He had swung round his revolving chair so as to face me, and he sat all puffed out like an enormous bull-frog, his head laid back and his eyes half-covered by supercilious lids.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Experiments in the study revealed that after just one exposure to the chytrid fungus, frogs learned to avoid the deadly pathogen.

(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)

Batrachotoxins are potent activators of sodium channels identified in extract of frog skins.

(Batrachotoxin, NCI Thesaurus)

Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In effect, this small asteroid is caught in a game of leap frog with Earth that will last for hundreds of years.

(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)

The researchers split the frogs into three groups: experimental, control, and sham.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The commonest frog genera are Rana (grass frogs) and Hyla (tree frogs).

(Frog, NCI Thesaurus)

Pumpkin toadlets, found on the leaf litter of Brazil's Atlantic forest, are among the smallest frogs in the world.

(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And you hear that fellow with a frog in his throat—a steam schooner as near as I can judge, crawlin’ in from the Heads against the tide.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)