frog

     

Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia - List of Anuran families

Trivia about frog

  • The green & the mute types of this amphibian are the ones the French prize for their legs
  • Rosie the Ribiter, one of these amimals, leaped 21' 5 3/4" at the Calaveras County Jumping Jubilee in 1986
  • La Grenouille, on 52nd near Fifth, means this animal & does serve its legs
  • If you can barely speak, you're said to have one of these amphibians "in your throat"
  • Genus Rana; frequent victim of biology class dissections
  • Students who don't want to dissect a real one of these can order a cloth one named "Ribbit"
  • Use a whole toad but only the toe of this similar creature--you want that subtle flavor
  • The earliest known fossil of one of these was found in Arizona; it "croaked" about 200 million years ago
  • "Amphibian" in your throat(4)
  • The "Macbeth" witches' brew contains an entire toad but only the toe of this fellow amphibian
  • In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond
  • I look a little fishy right now at an ,early stage but soon I'll grow up and become this
  • Galvani thought this dead animal released electricity when touched to metal & its legs kicked
  • The world's most potent venom is secreted from the skin of one of these amphibians
  • The eyes of these croaking critters usually bulge, but they retract & push down on the mouth to help in swallowing
  • For fetching her golden ball out of the well, the princess promised this animal she'd eat, sleep & play with him
  • Because tadpoles are 4 times bigger than adults, the nocturnal Pseudis paradoxa is known as the "shrinking" this
  • Voiced by John Cleese, King Harold of "Shrek" fame was originally one of these small creatures
  • Subtract a letter from this amphibian & you get a hazy condition
  • A Times headline said Beelzebufo ampinga, at 10 pounds the largest of these ever, "hopped with dinosaurs"
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew speaks from a library.) In "Robinson Crusoe" the name of this amphibian means "a loop to hold a sword"; today, it's the name of this type of fastener
  • ...in biology if you actually pick up the poison dart species of this amphibian
  • A group of 3rd graders got a bill passed to make the Pacific chorus type of this Washington's state amphibian
  • "Toe of" this amphibian
  • Some find this nut on a violin bow--ribbeting
  • Mr. Jeremy Fisher:This critter, living at the edge of a pond in a Beatrix Potter tale
  • It's the amphibian name for the ornamental fastener seen here