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A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops.

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The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.

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Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.

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The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.

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An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.

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The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).

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To hunt or trap frogs.

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To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.

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To spatchcock (a chicken).

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A French person.

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• baguette

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A French-speaking person from Quebec.

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A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.

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An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.

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To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.

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To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.

Frogs of many kinds are plentiful, the brilliant green frogs being especially conspicuous and noisy.

There are snakes and small lizards, but no frogs or toads.

It is stated to live usually in pairs, and to eat rats, birds, frogs, white ants and various insects, and in the north of India it is accused of digging out dead bodies, and several of the native names mean "grave-digger."

Salamanders, toads and frogs are numerous, and crocodiles abound.

Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green "tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.

The Reptilia include countless numbers of alligators in the Guayas and its tributaries and in the tide-water channels of many of the smaller rivers; many species of lizards, of which Mr Whymper found three in the Quito basin; snakes of every description from the huge anaconda of the Amazon region down to the beautifully marked coral snake; and a great variety of frogs and toads.

Frogs occur in great variety.

Rats, frogs and bats form actually the only animal life in the caves, but a great number of antediluvian animal bones have been found here, as well as human bones and numerous remains of prehistoric human settlements.

The chief foes of Indra are Vrittra and Ahi, serpents which swallow up the waters, precisely as frogs do in Australian and Californian and Andaman myths.

Some are said occasionally to resort to berries and other fruit for food, but as a rule they are carnivorous, feeding chiefly on birds and their eggs, small mammals, as squirrels, hares, rabbits and moles, but chiefly mice of various kinds, and occasionally snakes, lizards and frogs.

Frogs and toads are represented by scores of species, some of which, e.g.

This may be also true of some of those instances that have occurred among frogs, in Proteus, and with an axolotl once possessed by the present writer.

While frogs may be harmless, there will always be the risk of encountering a few snakes as well.

It grows rarely to a length of 4 ft.; it never bites, and feeds chiefly on frogs, toads and fishes, but mice are never taken.

The arboreal life of the tropical forests has developed the treeclimbing habit among snakes as well as among frogs and toads, and also the habit of mimicry, their colour being in harmony with the foliage or bark of the trees which form their " hunting-grounds."

During the reign of Peisistratus he is said to have visited Athens, on which occasion he related the fable of The Frogs asking for a King, to dissuade the citizens from attempting to exchange Peisistratus for another ruler.

It is nowhere abundant, but is found over the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and is a quiet, inoffensive animal, nocturnal and solitary in its habits, sleeping by day in its burrow, and issuing forth at night to feed on roots, beech-mast, fruits, the eggs of birds, small quadrupeds, frogs and insects.

Squirrels, flying-squirrels, porcupines, civet-cats, rats, bats, flying-foxes and lizards are found in great variety; snakes of various kinds, from the boa-constrictor downward, are abundant, while the forests swarm with tree-leeches, and the marshes with horse-leeches and frogs.

Many of the works once attributed to him are lost; those which remain are the two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, thirty-three Hymns, a mock epic (the Battle of the Frogs and Mice), and some pieces of a few lines each (the so-called Epigrams).

Galvani had made in 1790 his historic observations on the muscular contraction produced in the bodies of recently killed frogs when an electrical machine was being worked in the same room, and described them in 1791 (De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius, Bologna, 1791).

Lizards are numerous, and as well as frogs are found at all elevations from the plains to the upper Himalayan valleys, and even extend to Tibet.

So far as these are an article of general commerce, they come, like frogs, terrapin and turtles, mainly from the counties of the embayment region.

The tree-frogs, Hylidae, with which the arboreal Ranidae were formerly grouped, show in their anatomical structure a close resemblance to the toads, Bufonidae, and are therefore placed far away from the true frogs, however great the superficial resemblance between them.

Some frogs grow to a large size.

Frogs and toads occur wherever insect food is procurable, and their distribution is a world-wide one, with the exception of many islands.

The larynx, which is rudimentary in most of the Caudata and in the Apoda, is highly developed in the Ecaudata, and becomes the instrument of the powerful voice with which many of the frogs and toads are provided.

Although there is much similarity between the Apoda of Africa and of South America, one genus being even common to both parts of the world, the frogs are extremely different, apart from the numerous representatives of the widely distributed genus Bufo.

Frogs also hibernate from october for around 3-5 months.

You come in to the odor of night-blooming jasmine and perhaps the song of the frogs?

Although your prince charming may be an e-mail away, you may also encounter a lot of frogs.

Kids and grown-ups try to jump frogs into a pond, fish for letters, spin reels to build a shape and roll dice for virtual snacks.

The others for the most part frequent the rice-fields and live upon frogs.

The generic name of Trypanosoma was conferred by Gruby in 1843 upon the wellknown parasite of frogs.

This is succeeded by a plague of frogs.

This plan of structure, apparently evolved out of the rhachitomous type by suppression of the pleurocentra and the downward extension of the neural arch, leads to that characteristic of frogs in which, as development shows, the vertebra is formed wholly or for the greater part by the neural arch (14).

The former type is exemplified by the toads and the lower Ecaudata, whilst the latter is characteristic of the true frogs (Ranidae), although when quite young these batrachians present a condition similar to that which persists throughout life in their lower relatives.

The green and blue, so frequent in frogs and newts, are merely subjective colours, due to interference.

In some of the discoglossid frogs, however, the seminal duct is quite independent of the kidney, which has its own canal, or true ureter.

In some species of the South American frogs of the genus Leptodactylus the breast and hands are armed with very large spines, which inflict deep wounds on the female held in embrace.

The methods of research are essentially those employed by physiologists, the action of substances being studied in the usual way on bacteria, leucocytes, frogs, rabbits and other animals.

The lush growth provides a safe nursery for developing amphibians including toads, frogs and smooth newts.

No native amphibians are known and any frogs, newts or toads found have been introduced.

This area also allows small amphibians such as frogs and toads to enter the pond easily.

It represented an important breeding ground for frogs and was a definite feeding ground for owls and bats.

Australian researchers have already repaired torn cartilage on the knees of 10 sheep with this natural glue, which frogs use to trap insects.

Whilst male frogs make a quiet, low-pitched call during the breeding season, toads make a louder, higher croak.

Hunters tipped their darts with a potent plant poison called curare or with poison from certain species of frogs.

These small brown frogs are related to the brightly colored poison dart frogs.

The frogs, you see, are under pressure, and not just from the weight of central diktats.

Tall reeds fringe open water where frogs and toads spawn in the spring.