Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An amphibian, especially a frog, or, in some classifications, a frog or a salamander but not a caecilian.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Batrachia, especially frogs and toads.
- noun One of the Batrachia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
frog ortoad . - adjective Pertaining to a
frog ortoad .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to frogs and toads
- noun any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At present no toad-eating is connected with the acceptance of hospitality, or, if occasionally a small "batrachian" is offered, it is so well disguised by an accomplished _chef_, and served on such exquisite old Dresden, that it slips down with very little effort.
Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884
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Even though there's not a single tentacle or a squamous batrachian fish-person in sight.
"Enduring notions, new found promise, that the end will never come." greygirlbeast 2008
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More immediately dangerous was batrachian squeak Gaunt's promise to "give Galloway a good slapping" (repeated thrice) in the boxing ring for charity.
Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Determinedly the batrachian thrust again with its spear, this time following through with its blade.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009
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Rising from the swamp itself, a band of Rillyti menaced them from the trail ahead—more than a dozen of the batrachian creatures.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009
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"I did her batrachian lips, her bulbous eyes and scaly hips/She's got secrets, but they'll soon be mine/O Father Dagon smiles upon me from the bas-relief/Something's fishy down in Devil Reef..."
For the Love of a Daughter Anne Johnson 2008
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We are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.
OpEdNews - Diary: Sunday Newsletter-- Why You See Anne Coulter Ads on OpEdNews 2007
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We are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.
Printing: Sunday Newsletter-- Why You See Anne Coulter Ads on OpEdNews 2007
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We are forced to contemplate the batrachian grapplings of Paul Wolfowitz, the man who cherry-picked intelligence to sell us a war with Iraq.
jaime_d commented on the word batrachian
from Middlemarch
October 1, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word batrachian
"'...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
February 23, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word batrachian
""You idiot. Snakes don't cough."
"How do you know? You're not an ophiologist. You're a batrachianist.""
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 167
September 3, 2011
Louises commented on the word batrachian
Window-panes fogged by her slow batrachian breath. Cold Comfort Farm.
February 23, 2013
TankHughes commented on the word batrachian
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-globalized-jitters-penny Nov 2017
"The gurning batrachian monster that crawled out of the mordant id of mass society to squat in the Oval Office was a symptom of our collective neurosis before he was a cause."
November 28, 2017