Definition of Anurans

1. Noun. (plural of anuran) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anurans

1. anuran [n] - See also: anuran

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anurans

antumbra
antvireo
antvireos
antwacky
anty
anuclear
anucleate
anucleolate
anular
anulus
anumerical
anuptaphobia
anura
anural
anuran
anurans (current term)
anureses
anuresis
anuretic
anuria
anurias
anuric
anurous
anury
anus cerebri
anus vesicalis
anuses
anusvara
anusvaras

Literary usage of Anurans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production by Erik Maijaard (2005)
"Changes in nutrient composition, pH levels and temperature may lead to malformations and death among larval anurans (Feder & Burggren 1992; Quellet et al. ..."

2. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"Very different views exist as regards the homologies of the individual carpals of anurans. In the distal row of the tarsus, ..."

3. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"It provides little information concerning the specific ancestry of the order, but indicates that anurans were distinct from the other living groups since ..."

4. The Order Microsauria by Pamela Gaskill, Robert Lynn Carroll (1978)
"It provides little information concerning the specific ancestry of the order, but indicates that anurans were distinct from the other living groups since ..."

5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Kuhlenbeck proceeds from the simplest brain in the mammalian series, the forebrain of amphibians, through the intermediary stage of the anurans to the ..."

6. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
""Toads" includes all dry, short-legged, hopping anurans that are resistant to desiccation (Bufonidae, Leptodactylidae, Microhylidae, Pelobatidae); ..."

7. Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim (1907)
"The former condition is seen, eg, in anurans and the latter in Birds, in which a third eyelid is so largely developed as to be capable of ..."

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