tree-frog
Any frog of arboreal habits; often loosely used for tree-toad.
| 1738 Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XL. 348, 71. Rana viridis arborea. The green Tree Frog. These Frogs are always found sticking to the under Sides of Leaves of Trees, and other Plants. 1802 Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 389 Hylæ, or Tree-Frogs,..are generally smaller than Frogs, and more elegant in all their proportions. 1849 Cupples Green Hand xv, At times the tree-frogs broke out in a loud clicking chirrup. 1860 Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 28 Then there come..sounds like the snoring of an oppressed sleeper,..or..the groaning..of a ship's timbers in a heavy gale... These are produced by great tree-frogs. |