Batrachia: alternatives and connections

A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, a…

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the tr…

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

See Anura.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha.

Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide o…

A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running…

The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- cal…

A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of…

An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha.

To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.