TONGUELESS FROG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tongueless frog mean? 

• TONGUELESS FROG (noun)
  The noun TONGUELESS FROG has 1 sense:

1. almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America

  Familiarity information: TONGUELESS FROG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONGUELESS FROG (noun)

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Meaning:

Almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tongueless 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 "tongueless frog"):

Pipa americana; Pipa pipa; Surinam toad (a South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back)

African clawed frog; Xenopus laevis (a tongueless frog native to Africa; established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals)

Holonyms ("tongueless frog" is a member of...):

family Pipidae; Pipidae (tongueless frogs)