Definition of Batrachia
1. Noun. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Amphibia, Class Amphibia
Member holonyms: Family Ranidae, Ranidae, Family Leptodactylidae, Leptodactylidae, Family Polypedatidae, Polypedatidae, Ascaphidae, Family Ascaphidae, Family Leiopelmatidae, Family Liopelmidae, Leiopelmatidae, Liopelmidae, Bufonidae, Family Bufonidae, Discoglossidae, Family Discoglossidae, Family Pelobatidae, Pelobatidae, Family Hylidae, Hylidae, Brevicipitidae, Family Brevicipitidae, Family Microhylidae, Microhylidae, Family Pipidae, Pipidae
Derivative terms: Salientian
Definition of Batrachia
1. n. pl. The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
Medical Definition of Batrachia
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Literary usage of Batrachia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"We see the Latin name batrachia was not used at all by Brogniart, as stated by Professor Cope in 1889 (batrachia of North America, p. 17). ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1892)
"The question of the ancestry of the batrachia cannot be considered to be yet settled. The ancestral type of fishes is probably the ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"East African Reptiles and batrachia.—The US National Museum has recently received some valuable collections of Reptiles and batrachia from Eastern Africa ..."
4. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"42 ; in the mature quadrupedal stage of these batrachia, ossification converts one terminal cup into a ball; which may be the front one, as in Pipa, ..."
5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1880)
"The egg of batrachia quits the ovary by a mechanism which has no analogy in other Vertebrates. ... On arrested or retarded metamorphoses in the batrachia. ..."
6. Reports on the Progress of Zoology and Botany, 1841, 1842 by Ray Society, Heinrich Friedrich Link (1845)
"Some new species of batrachia have also been described by JE Gray, in his Zoological ... Rapp describes three new batrachia in these Archives, 1842, 1, p. ..."