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Webster 1913 Edition


Batrachia

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Ba-tra′chi-a

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Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
βατράχειοσ
belonging to a frog, fr.
βάτραχοσ
frog.]
(Zool.)
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.