Definition of Order Anura

1. Noun. Frogs, toads, tree toads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Anura

order Aepyorniformes
order Agaricales
order Alcyonaria
order Alismales
order Amoebida
order Amoebina
order Amphipoda
order Anacanthini
order Anaspida
order Andreaeales
order Anguilliformes
order Anoplura
order Anostraca
order Anseriformes
order Anthocerotales
order Anura (current term)
order Aphyllophorales
order Aplacophora
order Apodes
order Apodiformes
order Apterygiformes
order Arales
order Araneae
order Araneida
order Aristolochiales
order Artiodactyla
order Aspergillales
order Auriculariales
order Batoidei
order Batrachia

Literary usage of Order Anura

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

1. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1907)
"order Anura. (Frogs, toads, etc.) Hyla chinensis GUENTHER. GUENTHER: Catalogue of Batrachia salientia in British Mus., 1858, p. 108, plate IX, flg. ..."

2. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"The third order—Anura—includes all those Amphibians that are without tails in the adult stage, and is well represented by our Frogs and Toads. ..."

3. The American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia (1904)
"BUFO. Synonyms, Cinereus. Rana Bufo. Class, Amphibia. Order, Anura. ... Order, Anura. Common Name, Toad of South America. ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... and order Anura. The absence of a tail and the presence of two pairs of limbs, of which the posterior are larger than the anterior, place the genus ..."

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