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Definition of Spring peeper
1. Noun. A small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring.
Generic synonyms: Tree Frog, Tree Toad, Tree-frog
Group relationships: Genus Hyla, Hyla
Definition of Spring peeper
1. Noun. A frog of a particular species ((spelink Pseudacris crucifer)). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spring Peeper
Literary usage of Spring peeper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Zoölogy: An Elementary Text-book Treating of the Structure, Life by Alvin Davison (1906)
"The spring peeper (Hyla pickeringii) announces the coming spring by its cK' ...
The spring peeper. Photo- giving the high trilling note graph natural size. ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"O. Wills, il Kind M 31:265 My 203 My 47 spring peeper«. See Tree-toads Spring-Rice,
Sir Cecil Arthur (tr.) Sonnets from the Persian. ..."
3. A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region by Elliot Rowland Downing (1922)
"Here, too, one may find, if low prairie is near, the spring peeper, Chorophilus
nigritus, that marsh tree frog whose clear peep is almost like a ..."
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