GENUS HYLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Hyla mean? 

• GENUS HYLA (noun)
  The noun GENUS HYLA has 1 sense:

1. the type genus of the Hylidae; tree toads

  Familiarity information: GENUS HYLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HYLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The type genus of the Hylidae; tree toads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Hyla; Hyla

Hypernyms ("genus Hyla" is a kind of...):

amphibian genus (any genus of amphibians)

Meronyms (members of "genus Hyla"):

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)

Holonyms ("genus Hyla" is a member of...):

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