tree frogs
- plural of tree frog.
Example Sentences
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"These tropical rainforest sites with low species diversity are in regions that have been colonized by tree-frogs relatively recently, like northwestern South America, Central America, and Australia."
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2011
Amazonian tree-frogs are exceedingly well established Tree-frog hot spots in the Amazon have been established over tens of millions of years, say scientists.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2011
The dingoes howled persistently in the woods below, and quite close there was the incessant "croak-croak-croak-croak" of tree-frogs, together with many other inexplicable and weird noises.
From Queensland Cousins by Haverfield, Eleanor Luisa
Before they had ceased, the tree-frogs chimed in with their “Quack, quack! drum, drum! hoo, hoo!” accompanied by melancholy nightjars, which for long kept up their monotonous cries.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
A hot day, with the bees booming among the acacia-flowers, and the green tree-frogs shouting joyously above in the ilex-tops, and the lizards running in and out of the china-rose hedges on the highways.
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida
