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Meaning of frog in English

frog
noun [ C ]
uk/frɒɡ/ us/frɑːɡ/

frog noun [C] (ANIMAL)

B1
a small animal that has smooth skin, lives in water and on land, has long powerful back legs with which it jumps from place to place, has no tail, and is usually greenish-brown in colour:
Frogs make a low noise called a croak.
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frog noun [C] (ON STRING INSTRUMENT)

music specialized
the bottom part of a bow (= a long, thin piece of wood with hair from the tail of a horse stretched along it, used to play some musical instruments that have strings) :
Modern bows have easily adjustable frogs.
The bow is held in the right hand with the thumb bent underneath the frog to support it and the other hands loosely gripping the wood.
Synonym
Frog
noun [ C ]
UK informal offensive uk/frɒɡ/ us/frɑːɡ/
an offensive word for a French person
(Definition of frog from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

frog | American Dictionary

frog
noun [ C ]
us/frɔɡ, frɑɡ/
a small animal that has smooth skin, lives in water and on land, has long powerful back legs with which it jumps from place to place, and has no tail
(Definition of frog from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of frog

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Kinetics of long-lived rhodopsin photoproducts in the frog retina as a function of the amount bleached.
Photoreceptor shedding is initiated by light in the frog retina.
To obtain embryos, the same female frog used for collecting oocytes was allowed to recover for 2 weeks from the surgery.
This inter twining may have included co-fasciculation like that described above for the frog, although it was not specifically mentioned.
Individual frogs were placed in an arena with uniformly colored white walls.
The skin was sutured and the frog allowed to survive for 1-3 days.
This could enable frogs to accurately find a single object and to select the most nasal object when there is more than one object visible.
The frogs were maintained in plastic tanks (23 cm x 16 cm x 11 cm) with water and food (mealworms) available ad libitum.
Evidence that fast exocytosis can be predominantly mediated by vesicles not docked at active zones in frog saccular hair cells.
It hardly "corroborates his identification with the frogs"; it holds it up for laughter (142).
Its usage helped sustain reference across the full range of this discourse, from the frog's reflexes to the crowd's violence.
The leap-frog method is adopted to solve the ion's equation of motion.
The movement of dust particles is obtained by calculating the equation of motion using the leap-frog method.
These plasmids were injected into early-stage embryos of the frog and, after a period of cell divisions, recovered from the embryos.
Our study indicates strong similarity between frogs and lizards in diet despite enormous differences in physiology and behaviour.
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Translations of frog

in Chinese (Traditional)
蛙,青蛙, 法國佬(侮辱性用語)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
蛙,青蛙, 法国佬(侮辱性用语)…
in Spanish
rana, rana [feminine]…
in Portuguese
rã, perereca, rã [feminine]…
एक लहान प्राणी ज्याची त्वचा गुळगुळीत असते, पाण्यात आणि जमिनीवर राहते, पाठीचे लांब मजबूत पाय असतात ज्यामुळे तो एका ठिकाणाहून दुसऱ्या जागी उडी मारतो…
カエル, 蛙(かえる)…
kurbağa…
grenouille…
granota…
kikker…
மென்மையான தோலைக் கொண்ட ஒரு சிறிய விலங்கு, நீரிலும் நிலத்திலும் வாழ்கிறது, நீண்ட சக்திவாய்ந்த பின்புற கால்களைக் கொண்டுள்ளது…
मेंढक…
દેડકો…
frø…
groda…
katak…
der Frosch…
frosk [masculine], frosk…
مینڈک…
жаба…
కప్ప, ఒక చిన్న జంతువు మృదువైన చర్మం కలిగి, నీటిలో మరియు భూమిపై నివసిస్తుంది…
ব্যাঙ…
žába…
kodok…
กบ…
con ếch…
żaba…
개구리…
rana…
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