froglike
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a word derived from
frog.
frognounany tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
Example Sentences
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Their froglike eyes are bulging, horns sprout from their heads and legs grow from their shoulders.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Sara came into the blaze late, the boys already leaping froglike across the deck, the girls gone bald in silicone caps.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
His Giuliani, in which he retracts his head, froglike, into hunched shoulders, is particularly adept.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2018
Hopkins’ performance, though not an out-and-out impersonation—his speech is measurably faster than the director’s froglike croak—is pleasurably broad, even a little campy.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2012
Dr. Nwala kept staring at Olanna with such annoyingly open adoration that Ugwu wanted to tell him to keep his froglike eyes away from her, chief medical officer or not.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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