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bullfrog

/ˈbʊlfɹɒɡ/US/ˈbʊlfɹɑɡ/

bullfrog noun: any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.

bullfrog: any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull
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Noun

bullfrog (plural bullfrogs)

  1. Any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.
    • The bull-frogs were also very large, and with voices proportionate to their size[.]1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Bullfrog

Bullfrog

  1. A ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
  2. A former mining district of Nye County, Nevada, United States; in full, Bullfrog Mining District
  3. A former county of Nye, Nevada, United States; in full, Bullfrog County. Seat: Carson City
    Synonyms:
    Bullfrog County, County of Bullfrog
  4. A mountain in the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, United States, located in the Bullfrog Hills, Mojave Desert; in full, Bullfrog Mountain
  5. An unincorporated community in Kane County, Utah, United States.

bullfrog meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Tagalog and Thai

bullfrog in Tamil

கருந்தவளை

bullfrog in Telugu

bullfrog
గోదురు కప్ప gōduru kappa

bullfrog in Tagalog

bullfrog
palakang-kabkab

bullfrog in Thai

bullfrog
อึ่งอ่าง ʉ̀ng-àang

Synonyms of bullfrog

Forms of bullfrog

pluralbullfrogs
alternative formbull frog
alternative formbull-frog

Origin of bullfrog

From bull + frog.

From bullfrog

Words formed from bullfrog

Words that rhyme with bullfrog

39 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bullfrog

What does bullfrog mean?
Bullfrog means any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.
What is bullfrog in Tamil?
Bullfrog in Tamil is கருந்தவளை. See Bullfrog meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bullfrog?
Bullfrog can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bullfrog?
Bullfrog is pronounced /ˈbʊlfɹɒɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of bullfrog?
The plural of bullfrog is bullfrogs.

Words near bullfrog in the dictionary

  1. bullfighting
  2. bullfightings
  3. bullfights
  4. bullfinch
  5. bullfinches
  6. bullfrog
  7. Bullfrog County
  8. bullfroggy
  9. bullfrogs
  10. bullfuck
  11. bullfucked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bullfrog (page history and authors); Bullfrog (page history and authors); bullfrog (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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