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Definition: Frogs |
FrogsNoun1. A decorative loop of braid or cord. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frogs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of catching frogs, denotes carelessness in watching after your health, which may cause no little distress among those of your family. To see frogs in the grass, denotes that you will have a pleasant and even-tempered friend as your confidant and counselor. To see a bullfrog, denotes, for a woman, marriage with a wealthy widower, but there will be children with him to be cared for. To see frogs in low marshy places, foretells trouble, but you will overcome it by the kindness of others. To dream of eating frogs, signifies fleeting joys and very little gain from associating with some people. To hear frogs, portends that you will go on a visit to friends, but it will in the end prove fruitless of good. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | An order of amphibia comprising the frogs, toads, tree toads. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Frogs Frenchmen, properly Parisians. So called from their ancient heraldic device, which was three frogs or three toads. "Qu'en disent les grenouilles? " - What will the frogs (people of Paris) say? - was in 1791 a common court phrase at Versailles. There was a point in the pleasantry when Paris was a quagmire, called Lutetia (mud-land) because, like frogs or toads, they lived in mud, but now it is quite an anomaly. (See Crapaud.) Frogs. The Lycian shepherds were changed into frogs for mocking Latona. (Ovid: Metamorphoses, vi. 4.) "As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs Railed at Latona's twin-born progeny." Milton: Sonnet, vii. It may be all fun to you, but it is death to the frogs. The allusion is to the fable of a boy stoning frogs for his amusement. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See Frog (disambiguation) for other meaning of the word "Frog"
Frogs
A frog. (Click here to enlarge image)Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Ranidae
Genera Many: see text A frog is a fresh-water amphibian of the family Ranidae, in the Order Anura. They are closely related to toads. The Ranidae are sometimes called the "true frogs" since a few members of other families also have common names including the word "frog".
Types and characteristics of frogs
Frogs are a a diverse group, and there are 4800 species. Most spend their lives in or near a source of water (water frogs), although tree frogs live in moist environments that are not actually aquatic environments. The requirement for water becomes most acute for egg and tadpole stages of the frog, yet here again some species are able to utilize temporary pools and water collected in the axils of plants.The most familiar frogs are the Bullfrog, the Edible frog, the Leopard Frogs, and the Green Frogs.
Frogs range in size from less than 50mm to 300mm in Conraua goliath, which is the largest known frog. All frogs have horizontal pupils. Their skin is smooth and they have long legs with webbing between the toes. This family has a bicornuated tongue that is attached in front, they also have a tympanum on each side of their head, which is involved in sound productin. Most frogs have deep, booming calls, or croaks, with some being onomatopoeically represented by the word "ribbet".
Many species of frog secrete toxins from their skin when under threat. These toxins deter predatory animals from eating them, and some are extremely poisonous to humans. The natives of the Amazon area extract curare from the poison arrow frog.
Distribution and Status
Members of this family are found worldwide, but they have a limited distribution in South America, and Australia. They do not occur in the West Indies and on most oceanic islands.In many parts of the world the frog population has declined drastically over the last few decades. Pollutants are one cause for this decline but other culprits include climatic changes, parasitic infestation, introduction of non-indigenous predators/competitors, infectious diseases, and urban encroachment.
Life cycle
The life cycle of a frog involves several stages. A female frog lays her eggs in a shallow pond or creek, where they will be sheltered from the current and from predators. The eggs, known as frogspawn hatch into tadpoles, and this tadpole stage develops gradually into an adolescent froglet, which resembles an adult instead of having the sperm-like appearance of a tadpole but still has a vestigial tail, and finally into an adult frog. Typically, tadpoles are herbivores, feeding mostly on algae, whereas juvenile and adult frogs are rather voracious carnivores. Furthermore, The red-legged frogs normally reproduce from November to early April because during these months, the water is about six or seven degrees Celsius. Under these cool conditions, it is ensure the embryonic survival. Amplexus is the process when the male grasps the female while she lays her eggs. At the same time, he fertilizes them with the fluid containing sperm. The eggs are about 2.0 to 2.8 milliliters in diameter and are dark brown. After about six to fourteen days, the eggs hatch between July and September into brown tadpoles that are about thre inches long. The tadpoles start to lose their tails, grow legs, and change into a juvenile form of the adult frog with their characteristics that looks like frogs.
Green leopard frogA new frog
In 2003, Franky Bossuyt of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) and S.D. Biji of the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute in Palode, India reported the discovery of a new species of frog so distinct in appearance and DNA that it merited its own new family, the first new family for frogs since 1926. This new species, dubbed Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, is dark purple in color, seven centimeters in length, and has a small head and a pointy snout. Genetically, its closest living relatives are the sooglossids found in the Seychelles. The new species was discovered in the Sahyadri (Western Ghats) Mountains in India. The BBC have a picture of oneMiscellaneous
- One of the most famous frogs in the entertainment world is the Muppet character Kermit the Frog (not easy being green indeed).
- The American TV network The WB (Warner Brothers) uses Michigan, a frog in a tuxedo as their logo.
- Budweiser uses animatronic frogs that speak the syllables of its name to advertise its beer.
- To have "a frog in the throat" is to have a dry throat, or a minor throat irritation, less severe than a sore throat.
- Frogger was an early electronic arcade game, with a frog trying to cross a busy road.
External links
- The Whole Frog Project ~ (virtual frog dissection and anatomy)
- Frog Info Pool
- Disappearance of toads, frogs has some scientists worried ~ San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 1992
- The Froggy Page ~ Frog fun
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Frog."
Synonym: FrogsSynonym: frog (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | With flowers and bells and leprechauns, and magic frogs with funny little hats (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) God, I'm sick of frogs. (Invasion U.S.A.; writing credit: James Bruner) There is no doubt that the classical tradition is the curse of boils, bats, frogs, the curse of blood, the curse of rats, hail, of beasts, the locust, of course, the death of the first-born, and then, finally, of darkness (The Abominable Dr. Phibes; writing credit: James Whiton; William Goldstein) I'd make poison darts out of the poison of the deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey (The Office; writing credit: Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant) It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants (Sleeper; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Tongue Twisters | Fat frogs flying past fast. (references; author: unknown) The fickle finger of fate flips fat frogs flat. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Frogs (1972) Hare and Frogs (1921) Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999) Banjo Frogs (1999) Kisses and Frogs (1998) | |
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 | A pharmacist shows her collection of dried frogs and lizards. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |  | The hares and the frogs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Legs of dissected frogs, and various metallic apparatus used to measure what was thought to be electricity flowing in animals. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Terrycloth Frogs" by Ryan Glanzer Commentary: "The TC Frogs hang out while waiting to be won at Valleyfair's Skatterball." | "Froggie 2" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Series of some nice frogs that live in a nearby lake :)." |
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 | Frog; bullfrog; swamp; frogs; toad; toads. |
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Bion | Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. |
Virgil | Frogs in the marsh mud drone their old lament. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I went down on my hands and knees to look for him, for I felt very curious to know how young Frogs ought to be amused |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All the frogs were silent |
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Health | Snakes, birds, frogs, and fish cannot get rabies. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr. Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them fricasees, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective -- "brekekex-koax"; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof -- a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race. |
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| "Frogs" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "Frogs" is used about 450 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.78% | 449 | 12,949 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 450 | N/A |
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Beginning with "frogs": Frogs-bit. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
frogs.com senor | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "frogs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 青蛙 (Frog). (various references) | |
Danish | springpadder (tail-less amphibians, toads, tree toads), springfrø-slægt. (various references) | |
Dutch | kikvorsen, kikkers, kikkerachtigen (tail-less amphibians, toads, tree toads). (various references) | |
Finnish | sammakko-suku. (various references) | |
French | grenouilles, coeurs de croisement (point frogs), anoures, \FRG. (various references) | |
German | Frösche (squibs). (various references) | |
Greek | βατράχια, άκερκα (tail-less amphibians, toads, tree toads), άνουρα (tail-less amphibians, toads, tree toads). (various references) | |
Italian | rane. (various references) | |
Korean | 개구리 (Frog). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogsfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Salientia (tail-less amphibians, toads, tree toads), ras (Row Address Strobe), rãs, anuros (tail-less amphibians, toads, tree toads). (various references) | |
Russian | лягушачья лапка (frogs legs). (various references) | |
Spanish | ranas. (various references) | |
Swedish | grodor. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anura, Rana, Rana spp., Salientia. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Revelation Chapter 16, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eidon ek tou stomatoV tou drakontoV kai ek tou stomatoV tou qhriou kai ek tou stomatoV tou yeudoprofhtou pneumata tria akaqarta omoia batracoiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et vidi de ore draconis et de ore bestiae et de ore pseudoprophetae spiritus tres inmundos in modum ranarum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Y say thre vnclene spiritis bi the manner of froggis go out of the mouth of the dragoun, and of the mouth of the beeste, and of the mouth of the fals prophete. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And I sawe thre vnclene sprettes lyke frogges come out of the mouthe of the dragon and out of the mouthe of the beeste and out of the mouthe of the falce prophett. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, like frogs. |
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| Language | Revelation Chapter 16, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug nakita ko nga diha sa baba sa dragon, ug sa baba sa mapintas nga mananap, ug sa baba sa mini nga profeta, nanggula gikan niini ang tulo ka mga mahugawng espiritu nga morag mga baki; |
| Chinese | 我 又 看 見 三 個 污 穢 的 靈 、 好 像 青 蛙 、 從 龍 口 獸 口 並 假 先 知 的 口 中 出 來 ． |
| Croatian | I vidjeh: iz usta Zmajevih i iz usta Zvijerinih i iz usta Lažnoga proroka izlaze tri duha neèista, kao žabe. |
| Danish | Og jeg så, at der af Dragens Mund og af Dyrets Mund og af den falske Profets Mund udgik tre urene Ånder, som lignede Padder. |
| Dutch | En ik zag uit den mond des draaks, en uit den mond van het beest, en uit den mond des valsen profeets, drie onreine geesten gaan, den vorsen gelijk; |
| Finnish | Ja minä näin lohikäärmeen suusta ja pedon suusta ja väärän profeetan suusta lähtevän kolme saastaista henkeä, sammakon muotoista. |
| French | Et je vis sortir de la bouche du dragon, et de la bouche de la bête, et de la bouche du faux prophète, trois esprits impurs, semblables à des grenouilles. |
| German | Und ich sah aus dem Munde des Drachen und aus dem Munde des Tiers und aus dem Munde des falschen Propheten drei unreine Geister gehen, gleich den Fröschen; |
| Haitian Creole | Apre sa, mwen wè twa move lespri ki t'ap soti yonn nan bouch dragon an, yonn nan bouch bèt la, yonn nan bouch fo pwofèt la. Yo te tankou krapo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu saya melihat tiga roh jahat yang rupanya seperti katak. Masing-masing katak itu keluar dari mulut naga, dari mulut binatang, dan dari mulut nabi palsu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka aku tampak keluar dari mulut naga dan dari mulut binatang dan dari mulut nabi palsu itu, tiga roh yang najis, serupa katak; |
| Italian | Poi dalla bocca del drago e dalla bocca della bestia e dalla bocca del falso profeta vidi uscire tre spiriti immondi, simili a rane: |
| Latvian | Un es redzçju iznâkam no pûía mutes un no zvçra mutes, un no viltus pravieða mutes trîs neðíîstus garus kâ vardes. |
| Maori | A i kite ahau i nga wairua poke e toru, te rite kei te poroka, e puta mai ana i te mangai o te tarakona, i te mangai hoki o te kararehe, i te mangai ano hoki o te poropiti teka: |
| Norwegian | Og jeg så at det av dragens munn og av dyrets munn og av den falske profets munn kom ut tre urene ånder som lignet padder; |
| Portuguese | E da boca do dragão, e da boca da besta, e da boca do falso profeta, vi saírem três espíritos imundos, semelhantes a rãs. |
| Rumanian | Apoi am vqzut iewind din gura balaurului, wi din gura fiarei, wi din gura proorocului mincinos trei duhuri necurate, cari semqnau cu niwte broawte. |
| Shuar | Tura Nuyá juna wainkiamjai. Ti Kajen Yajasma weneyasha, Entsaya Yajasma weneyasha tura Núnisan penké Kukaria Yajasma ántar Yúsnan etserniua nuna weneyasha puachia Núnin yajauch wakan menaint Jíiniarmai. |
| Swahili | Kisha nikaona pepo wabaya watatu walio kama vyura, wakitoka kinywani mwa yule joka, kinywani mwa yule mnyama, na kinywani mwa yule nabii wa uongo. |
| Swedish | Och ur drakens gap och ur vilddjurets gap och ur den falske profetens mun såg jag tre orena andar utgå, lika paddor. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "frogs": bullfrogs, leapfrogs. (additional references) | |
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"Frogs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: forgs, fraggs, frags, frcog, freg, fregoso, frgs, Frigga, frogg, froggs, frogi, Frogn, frogy, frong, froog, Frooms, fros, frows, frug, frugs, Troggs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frogs" (pronounced frÄ"gz) |
| 3 | -Ä" g z | bogs, clogs, dogs, hogs, jogs, togs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: fogs, frog. | |
-2 letters: fog, for, fro, gor, gos, ors. | |
-3 letters: go, of, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: forges, gofers. | |
+2 letters: foggers, forages, forgers, forgets, forgoes, goffers, golfers. | |
+3 letters: fagoters, farragos, figworts, firedogs, floggers, foghorns, foragers, foregoes, foreguts, forelegs, forgings, forgives, forgoers, fourgons, frogeyes, frogfish, fromages, frosting, furlongs, gasiform, griffons, isograft, reforges, roofings. | |
+4 letters: bullfrogs, defoggers, farragoes, faubourgs, filmgoers, floorages, floorings, florigens, fogfruits, footgears, foregoers, foresight, forestage, foresting, forewings, forgeries, forgivers, forjudges, forsaking, fosterage, fostering, frescoing, froggiest, frontages, frostings, frottages, frowsting, fulgurous, furloughs, glorifies, isografts, leapfrogs, offerings, offspring, ossifrage, sangfroid, sgraffito, shroffing, sugarloaf. | |
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