frogletn.

1824 Cambr. Q. Rev. 1 268 Sentence him to an immersion in the bed of the West Water, preparatory to his installation as Professor of Poetry to the eels and froglets.

1885 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 570 Next it grows its fore-legs and swims about a long-tailed froglet.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. xvii. 196 The brusque transformation of tadpole into froglet.

1956 Nature 18 Feb. 342/2 By August..the froglets from this spawn were approximately 1½ cm. long.

1996 New Scientist 10 Feb. 39/1 Full stops turned into commas, then into an aquarium full of wriggling black tadpoles and, finally, to swarms of tiny froglets.

1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xxi Just one chirp of a nightingale or trill of a flute from a froglet.

1928 Science 25 May Suppl. p. xiv/2 He found these little yellow-green frogs ensconced inside the..hollow leaves of the pitcher-plant, whose color almost exactly matched the color of the froglets.

1986 T. R. Halliday & K. Adler Encycl. Reptiles & Amphibians 51/3 The Malaysian hill froglet occurs commonly in montane cloud forest where there is rarely any standing water.

1996 Courier–Mail (Brisbane) 27 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) 8/4 It would be worth a visit to Perth in the rain to hear a Glauert's froglet call.