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Meanings of tree frog in English

Arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America.

Usage of tree frog in English
1
An old practitioner scents crime, as a tree frog smells rain.
A Word, Only a Word — Volume 02
2
The chemical array in the tree frog skin shares some similarities with snake venoms.
Pubmed
3
A tree frog, skin speckled green and yellow, wearing a black, large brimmed hat.
The Dreaming Place
4
Each tree frog expelled its bead within 23 days.
Wired
5
Most of these components in this tree frog help defend against predators, heal wounds, or attenuate suffering.
Pubmed
6
A tree frog, a locust, a katydid?
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
7
An orange tree frog hops ahead of us as we emerge from the rocks back into the forest.
BBC
8
A giant yellow tree frog will crawl across the concrete high above the street searching for a tasty worm.
News.com.au
9
A South American tree frog is in the unlikely position of possibly providing a new treatment for people with Type II diabetes.
The Irish Times
10
Their hands were fat little balls of flesh with flat infantile thumbs, as delicate and strange as the paws of a tree frog.
Winter’s Tale
11
As I was placing the last of my impossibly fine stitches, I said, "What's this I hear about a paralyzed tree frog?"
Love is the best medicine: what two dogs taught one veterinarian...
12
The Hyla is the little green tree frog, and Beale has founded some of his views on protoplasm upon the appearances of its nerve cells.
Beyond the City
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Then the sounds of the forest returned: the first tentative croak of a tree frog, the buzz of one cicada, and then the full chorus.
Jurassic Park
14
There are multiple threatened species that are protected by the park, like the spotted tree frog or the pygmy possum, but I like the birds.
The Guardian
15
When they took her newborn and placed him on her chest, boneless and sticky as a tree frog, Shelby could not tear her eyes away.
Second glance
16
No sinister sounds competed with the croaking of the tree frogs.
Uneasy Money