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Definition of Pickerel frog

1. Noun. A meadow frog of eastern North America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickerel Frog

Literary usage of Pickerel frog

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

1. North American Anura: Life-histories of the Anura of Ithaca, New York by Albert Hazen Wright (1914)
"The paucity of literature on the habits of the pickerel-frog is very evident. It has long masqueraded under the cloak of "like Rana pipiens in many respects ..."

2. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"This frog can be easily distinguished from any other of the frogs about the lake except the pickerel frog, which it resembles considerably, but from which ..."

3. The Frog Book: North American Toads and Frogs, with a Study of the Habits by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1906)
"On the other hand, the young pickerel frog just from a cold day's sleep in the mud ... These things mark him as a pickerel frog. He is in fact very closely ..."

4. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1917)
"There is a similar confusion between the leopard or pickerel frog and the ... The pickerel frog is so called because its bright colors, fishermen say, ..."

5. A Source Book of Biological Nature-study by Elliot Rowland Downing (1919)
"The pickerel frog those most frequently met with are the bullfrog, the spring frog, the green frog, the pickerel frog, the wood frog, and the little cricket ..."

6. History of Vermont: Natural, Civil and Statistical, in Three Parts, with an by Zadock Thompson (1853)
"THE pickerel frog. Rana palustris.—LE COSTE. DF.SCRIPTION.—Color brownish ash a- bove ; throat and belly white ; flanks and under sides of the limbs yellow; ..."

7. A Naturalist's Rambles about Home by Charles Conrad Abbott (1884)
"The pickerel-frog may be said to differ from the preceding in the number and position of a few spots on the back: the herring-frog has the spots in two rows ..."

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