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frog

[frog, frawg] / frɒg, frɔg /
NOUN
jumping amphibian
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As a result, a frog that had been regularly seen and documented for decades never received a scientific name of its own.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

They also examined external features, skeletal anatomy, and frog calls.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

The other is an extinct species of tree frog in Florida, according to the museum’s news release.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

But it is the mining industry that is currently threatening the desert rain frog and its exceptional habitat.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

The rotor croaked like a stepped-on frog, but dang—pretty impressive for a rush job.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Because these frogs are so difficult to find and observe, diamond frogs remain among the least studied vertebrates in Madagascar.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

To sort out the identities of these frogs, researchers combined field observations, museum specimens, and advanced DNA analysis.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

It’s not clear when the trafficked animals might join the roughly 12,000 turtles, frogs, octopuses, penguins, sharks and other sea creatures currently on public display.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

He spent more than two weeks watching the young frogs "eat everything that moved".

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

I try to force hats onto Nash and Oliver, but they resist my efforts and run straight for the frogs.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons."

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the cargo were several cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

The strange thing about them was their clothing, for the boys were dressed in the straight trousers and the frogged and braided jackets of the Chinese.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

When it came to clothing he allowed himself extraordinary freedom, the frogging on uniforms or lace on a dress sketched in thick impasto rather than being laboriously defined.

From The Guardian Sep. 26, 2015

And her young protégé Chris Van Hollen hails from the same state as Hoyer — Maryland — complicating any lea- frogging.

From Time Dec. 18, 2013

The film has it more or less right: a dark blue coat with silver frogging and braided epaulettes, partnered with skintight white breeches.

From The Guardian Oct. 5, 2012

Hence the nod to military influences — the Burberry heritage — presented as a much slimmer, belted jacket or a cardigan fastened with military frogging.

From New York Times Feb. 21, 2011

Aristophe, the Tin Lizzie, was quite mad with the excitement even from his very second fiddle standpoint of paddler to Josef's frogging.

From Joy in the Morning by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews




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