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African clawed frogs

African clawed frogs is the plural of African clawed frog.

Meaning of African clawed frog

Noun

African clawed frog (plural African clawed frogs)

  1. A clawed frog found in southern Africa, Xenopus laevis, that has some properties very useful for genetics.
    • Heaven knows what led him to do it, but Hogben found that if you injected an African clawed frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, within hours it would lay eggs.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 283
    Synonyms:
    xenopus, African clawed toad, platanna, common platanna

Questions about African clawed frogs

What is African clawed frogs the plural of?
African clawed frogs is the plural of African clawed frog.

Words near African clawed frogs in the dictionary

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  4. African civets
  5. African clawed frog
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  8. African crakes
  9. African crested porcupine
  10. African crowned eagle
  11. African crowned eagles

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