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Definition of Tailed frog
1. Noun. Western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ.
Generic synonyms: Anuran, Batrachian, Frog, Salientian, Toad, Toad Frog
Group relationships: Ascaphus, Genus Ascaphus
Definition of Tailed frog
1. Noun. A family of frogs in the ''Ascaphidae'' family, having distinctive tails ¹
2. Noun. (context: before 2001, after another similar species was discovered) The coastal tailed frog ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailed Frog
Literary usage of Tailed frog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vertebrate Embryology: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1893)
"A tailed frog, during the metamorphosis, dissected from the ventral surface to
... Transverse section through the hinder part of the body of a tailed frog ..."
2. Sentencing Dynamics Study: A Sourcebook Of Sentencing Practices In Urban ...Political Science (1993)
"tailed frog (Ascaphus true) tailed frogs are found along the coast and in ...
The tailed frog has a "tail", although not a true tail since the cloaca ..."
3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"They were taken at different stages up to the tailed-frog stage. Greatest numbers
were examined of the earlier stages. The tadpoles were killed and ..."
4. An Elementary Course of Practical Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Newton Parker (1900)
"... the head and trunk assume the characteristic frog-form, and the little animal
now comes on land and hops about as a small, tailed frog (7). ..."
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