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crab-eating frog

crab-eating frog noun: a species of frog, Fejervarya cancrivora, native to southeast Asia.

Noun

crab-eating frog (plural crab-eating frogs)

  1. A species of frog, Fejervarya cancrivora, native to southeast Asia.
    • Lo, the crab-eating frog, which lives in mangrove swamps and marshes, and is the only known modern amphibian which can tolerate salty water.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 15

Forms of crab-eating frog

pluralcrab-eating frogs

Words that rhyme with crab-eating frog

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Questions about crab-eating frog

What does crab-eating frog mean?
Crab-eating frog means a species of frog, Fejervarya cancrivora, native to southeast Asia.
What part of speech is crab-eating frog?
Crab-eating frog is a noun.
What is the plural of crab-eating frog?
The plural of crab-eating frog is crab-eating frogs.

Words near crab-eating frog in the dictionary

  1. crab-eater
  2. crab-eater seal
  3. crab-eaters
  4. crab-eating fox
  5. crab-eating foxes
  6. crab-eating frog
  7. crab-eating frogs
  8. crab-eating macaque
  9. crab-eating macaques
  10. crab-eating raccoon
  11. crab-eating raccoons

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