| 单词 | spring peeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspring peeper 2. U.S. A small tree frog of the genus Hyla; esp. (more fully spring peeper) a very small, brownish-grey tree frog with a dark cross on the back, H. crucifer, of eastern North America, the male of which sings in early spring. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Hylidae > spring peeper rain frog1827 peeper1851 spring peeper1855 1851 J. H. Mather & L. P. Brockett Geogr. Hist. N.Y. 43 The peeper or cricket frog, called in Savannah, the Savannah cricket. 1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 30 All is still now, save the piping notes of the little peeper along the shore. 1889 G. H. Ellwanger Garden's Story i. 19 The chorus of the Hylodes, or peepers,..that piercing treble..that nothing—even the katydid—can equal in strident intensity. 1906 M. C. Dickerson Frog Bk. 139 There are few people in the eastern United States who do not know the voices of the Spring Peepers... The Peepers have spring in their hearts. 1938 J. W. Lippincott Animal Neighbours (1940) xx. 192 The ridiculously small spring frog or peeper, an inch and a quarter long, comes first, sometime in March. 1990 New Age Jrnl. June 20/1 These web-footed tree frogs known as spring peepers were hibernating under leaves, moss, or logs. spring peeper spring peeper n. a small frog of the forests and woodlands of eastern North America, Pseudacris crucifer, the male of which has a loud, high pitched mating call considered to mark the beginning of spring. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Hylidae > spring peeper rain frog1827 peeper1851 spring peeper1855 1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. July 38/2 The deep bass of the bullfrog, the sharp whistle of the ‘spring-peepers’, and the cheerful, bird-like twitter of the tree-frog. 1950 Chicago Tribune 28 Mar. 14/3 Then there are those who listen for choruses of spring peepers. 2002 Northern Woodlands Spring 4/2 Spring peepers begin peeping in earnest. Isolated peepers will peep until November, but only now is there a big deafening chorus of them. < as lemmas |
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