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Definition of Spring frog

1. Noun. Similar to bullfrog; found in or near marshes and ponds; of United States and Canada.

2. Noun. Common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spring Frog

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spring equinox spring festival spring fever spring finger spring for spring frog (current term) spring green spring greens spring gun spring heath

spring in one's step spring lancet spring ligament spring line spring lines spring mattress spring onion spring onions spring ophthalmia spring out

Literary usage of Spring frog

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

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The spring frog (R. fontinalis, Le Conte) is green above, with dusky spots behind ; throat and abdomen yellow ; hind limbs dark green, with dusky bars; ..."

2. Railway Maintenance Engineering: With Notes on Construction by William Hamilton Sellew (1915)
"In recent years the hard-center rigid frog has replaced to a considerable extent the spring frog for main line use. The plans of the frogs shown in Fig. ..."

3. Railway Maintenance Engineering: With Notes on Construction by William Hamilton Sellew (1915)
"In recent years the hard-center rigid frog has replaced to a considerable extent the spring frog for main line use. The plans of the frogs shown in ..."

4. Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855)
"Noon Visitors to Scenery—The Bull-Frog at the Gate—Inconvenient Opening of a Spring—Frog Curiosity and Intelligence—Process of Animal Progression, &c., &c. ..."

5. Elements of Railroad Track and Construction by Winter Lincoln Wilson (1915)
"95 is shown the arrangement of the rails in a spring frog. ... A spring frog is more complicated in design than a stiff frog, not only on account of the ..."

6. Elements of Railroad Track and Construction by Winter Lincoln Wilson (1915)
"95 is shown the arrangement of the rails in a spring frog. ... A spring frog is more complicated in design than a stiff frog, not only on account of the ..."

7. Elements of Railroad Track and Construction by Winter Lincoln Wilson (1908)
"68 is shown the arrangement of the rails in a spring frog. ... A spring frog is more complicated in design than a stiff frog, not only on account of the ..."

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