单词 | batrachia |
释义 | Batrachian. Zoology. With plural agreement. a. One of Brongniart's four orders of Reptiles, including frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc., which have no ribs, and a soft scaleless skin, and breathe by means of gills during the early part, or whole, of their existence. ΚΠ 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §514 In the Proteidæ, or perennibranchiate Batrachia, the gills remain during the whole of life. b. By modern zoologists restricted to an order of the class Amphibia, containing those animals only, as frogs and toads, which subsequently discard the gills and tail of their larval state. (The singular is supplied by batrachian adj. and n.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] Batrachia1881 1881 St. G. Mivart in Nature No. 615. 337 Efts of all kinds, with all frogs and toads..form the class Batrachia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1847 |
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