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spring peeper
noun
- a tree frog, Hyla crucifer, having an X -shaped mark on the back and voicing a shrill call commonly heard near ponds and swamps of eastern North America in the early spring.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of spring peeper1
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
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Example Sentences
In February, in one of my last professional outings before the pandemic shutdown, I was in Maryland listening to emerging tree frogs, spring peepers, filling the air with a wall of croaking sound.
From Washington Post
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