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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] woody, wooded, muddy; [GREEK] a wood +

εἶδοσ

form.]

(Zool.)

The piping frog (

Hyla Pickeringii

), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.