Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various brown or gray nocturnal birds of the family Podargidae of Southeast Asia and Australia, having a wide mouth and a hooked bill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any bird of the family Podargidæ, especially of the genus Batrachostomus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family
Podargidæ ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
nocturnal ,insectivorous birds , of the familyPodargidae , native to Australia and southern Asia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth
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Examples
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Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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A new genus of birds (in the frogmouth family, the Podargidae) has been discovered in the Solomon Islands.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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'Without the help of local hunters, we probably would have overlooked the frogmouth.'
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Van Remsen, curator of birds at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, said that this new frogmouth genus serves as a poignant reminder that birds of the tropics, particularly from southeast Asia to Melanesia, have been paid scant attention by science.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Now, the quotation -- 'Without the help of local hunters, we probably would have overlooked the frogmouth' -- is interesting, but enigmatic.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Theirs is the first frogmouth from these islands to be caught by scientists in more than 100 years.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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A combination of detailed morphological and genetic analyses reveal that this frogmouth formerly dismissed as just a race of an existing species actually cannot be placed confidently in any existing genus, and so the data demand naming a new one. '
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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