Lexic.us

Definition of Grass frog

1. Noun. A common semiterrestrial European frog.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grass Frog

Literary usage of Grass frog

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

1. A Course on Practical Elementary Biology by John Bidgood (1893)
"THE COMMON grass frog (RANA ... Two species of frogs inhabit this country—the common grass frog (Rana ..."

2. A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley, Henry Newell Martin, George Bond Howes, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1902)
"THE only species of Frog indigenous in Britain is that termed the 'common' or 'grass frog' (Rana temporaria). On the Continent, there is, in addition to ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"The habits of the Grass-frog are essentially terrestrial. ... However, the Grass-frog when pursued rarely takes to the water for safety. ..."

4. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1902)
"... which is of a uniform dull green, and which has an immensely developed tympanum or ear-drum. The common grass frog. ... With regard to the grass frog, ..."

5. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introd. on the by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"In the grass frog (fig. 363) the manus has four visible fingers, ... The Edible Frog differs, among other characters, from the grass frog in the fact that ..."

6. Secrets of Animal Life by John Arthur Thomson (1919)
"It seems, then, that the grass-frog's habits vary considerably in different parts of its very ... It should be noted that the grass-frog's near relative, ..."

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