anuran

1. 1.

   relating to frogs and toads

   Synonymsbatrachiansalientian

   zoology

Other forms of anuran

plural

anurans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anuran

What does anuran mean?

anuran means "any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anuran?

anuran has 3 syllables: a-nu-ran. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for anuran?

Close synonyms include frog, toad, toad frog, batrachian, salientian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anuran a common word?

anuran is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.