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Definition of Anura
1. Noun. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Amphibia, Class Amphibia
Member holonyms: Family Ranidae, Ranidae, Family Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylidae, Family Polypedatidae, Polypedatidae, Ascaphidae, Family Ascaphidae, Family Leiopelmatidae, Family Liopelmidae, Leiopelmatidae, Liopelmidae, Bufonidae, Family Bufonidae, Discoglossidae, Family Discoglossidae, Family Pelobatidae, Pelobatidae, Family Hylidae, Hylidae, Brevicipitidae, Family Brevicipitidae, Family Microhylidae, Microhylidae, Family Pipidae, Pipidae
Derivative terms: Salientian
Definition of Anura
1. n. pl. One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.
Medical Definition of Anura
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anura
Literary usage of Anura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nasal Organ in Amphibia by George Marsh Higgins (1921)
"In all of the anura, the extension of the pterygoid process to the nasal capsule
is the normal condition, and recalls this relationship in Crypto- branchus ..."
2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"anura. The anura have the compact bodies familiar in frogs and toads, ...
Toad-like anura with degenerate tongue and unpaired opening of the Eustachian tube ..."
3. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"Other glands open into the narial chambers, and in anura on the oral mucous
membrane as well. In the Gymnophiona the cartilaginous ridges are replaced by ..."
4. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Sweetland Dallas (1866)
"I. anura, or Frogs and Toads, in which the adult animal is destitute of a tail.
... ORDER I.—anura. 526. The references already made to the species of this ..."
5. Internal Secretion and the Ductless Glands by Swale Vincent (1912)
"In the anura the adrenals are golden-yellow streaks on the ventral surface of
the kidney, of about 15 millimetres in length in the frog to about 28 ..."
6. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"ORDER anura. (Frogs, toads, etc.) Hyla chinensis GUENTHER. GUENTHER: Catalogue
of Batrachia salientia in British Mus., 1858, p. 108, plate IX, flg. ..."
7. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"(1) Atrophy of the tail in Batrachia anura, and of the larval gills in some
insects.—The tadpole of the frog has a well-developed tail which acts as the ..."
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