Ba*tra"chi*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. belonging to a frog, fr. frog.] Zool.

The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.

 

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