SPRING PEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spring peeper mean? 

• SPRING PEEPER (noun)
  The noun SPRING PEEPER has 1 sense:

1. a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring

  Familiarity information: SPRING PEEPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRING PEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hyla crucifer; spring peeper

Hypernyms ("spring peeper" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("spring peeper" is a member of...):

genus Hyla; Hyla (the type genus of the Hylidae; tree toads)