单词 | marsupial frog |
释义 | > as lemmasmarsupial frog marsupial frog n. any of several tree frogs, esp. of the South American genus Gastrotheca (family Hylidae), the females of which have a pouch in the skin of the back in which the fertilized eggs develop and hatch (cf. pouch-toad n. at pouch n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. at Frog Marsupial frog, a batrachian which possesses a brood-pouch, as of the genera Rhinoderma, Nototrema, and Amphignathodon. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xviii. 475 In the ‘marsupial frogs’ (Nototrema) of South American forests, the female has a dorsal skin-pouch, usually opening backwards near the cloaca. Into this pocket the eggs are somehow passed, perhaps with the male's assistance. 1992 Sci. Amer. July 63/1 Because the frogs brood their eggs in a manner analogous to that of mammals, they are often referred to as the marsupial frogs. < as lemmas |
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