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batrachian |
(n): any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
(n): cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form
(adj): relating to frogs and toads
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"'...now that I come to recollect, I found no batrachians of any kind on Rodriguez; and I could scarcely make an intelligent native understand what I meant by a frog, though I imitated his motions in a very lively manner, and his cry.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 272
from Middlemarch