froglet

American  

[frawg-lit] / ˈfrɔg lɪt /

noun

• froglets
  plural

1. a young frog, particularly one that has only recently metamorphosed from a tadpole or emerged from an egg.

2. a small adult frog, particularly those from the Myobatrachidae family.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• froglets
  plural

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You can watch the moment a Southern Darwin's froglet is 'born' in this clip from Sir David Attenborough's landmark nature series Life on Earth.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

During these weeks, a frog embryo develops to a young tadpole, a tadpole with two legs, and a young froglet with four legs before reaching the adult stage.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

"The remarkable thing about this frog is the drastic nature of its change in colour pattern as it matures from a tiny froglet into adulthood," Dr Kraus says.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2010

In March, ZSL announced the appearance of six mountain chicken froglets at London Zoo, after two of the frogs that were brought from Montserrat successfully bred for the first time in five years.

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

In early spring, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife collected northern leopard frog eggs and took them to Northwest Trek and the Oregon Zoo to grow from egg masses to tadpoles to froglets.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Zoo’s bounty of new arrivals, the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Santa Ana Zoo installed holding facilities equipped to rear tadpoles into froglets available for reintroduction projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

We learn, for instance, how baby koalas ingest their mothers’ faeces to inoculate their gut microbiomes, and that female gastric-brooding frogs vomited up their froglets.

From Nature ● Mar. 27, 2018

Born with completely white skin, froglets darken to green a few days after hatching before that pigment bleeds to yellow, a warning sign to predators to stay far away.

From Washington Post