froglet
noun
a young frog, particularly one that has only recently metamorphosed from a tadpole or emerged from an egg.
froglets
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pluralof froglet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
On Thursday morning, staff helped load ice chests containing 175 froglets from the aquarium and 25 from the Santa Ana Zoo into vehicles that transported them to the mountains.
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
