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spring peepers

spring peepers is the plural of spring peeper.

Meaning of spring peeper

Noun

spring peeper (plural spring peepers)

  1. A small chorus frog of North America (Pseudacris crucifer).
    • It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297
    Synonyms:
    pinkletink

Questions about spring peepers

What is spring peepers the plural of?
Spring peepers is the plural of spring peeper.

Words near spring peepers in the dictionary

  1. spring padlock
  2. spring padlocks
  3. spring parsley
  4. spring pasqueflower
  5. spring peeper
  6. spring peepers
  7. spring pin
  8. spring pins
  9. Spring Plains
  10. spring pocket
  11. spring pockets

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