Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites.
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. [1] For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people ("a group of people"), or dogs ("a group of dogs"), or objects ("a group of stones").
Frogs and toads are broadly classified into three suborders: Archaeobatrachia, which includes four families of primitive frogs; Mesobatrachia, which includes five families of more evolutionary intermediate frogs; and Neobatrachia, by far the largest group, which contains the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species ...
This list was originally spread out several pages of collective nouns, including one for "reptiles and amphibians", one for "fish, invertebrates, and plants", the existing one for "birds" and also several separate pages listing collective nouns by term and by subject. Over a lengthy period of time, myself and others merged the pages into this ...
Dancing frogs: Black torrent frog (Micrixalus saxicola) Microhylidae (Günther, 1858) 57: Narrow-mouthed frogs: Eastern narrow-mouthed toad (Gastrophryne carolinensis) Myobatrachidae (Schlegel In Gray, 1850) 14: Australian ground frogs: Great barred frog (Mixophyes fasciolatus) Nyctibatrachidae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993: 3: Robust frogs, night ...
Collective nouns for newts are flotilla and armada. ... Newts can safely live in the same ponds or streams as frogs and other amphibians or be kept as pets.
The Batrachia / b ə ˈ t r eɪ k i ə / are a clade of amphibians that includes frogs and salamanders, but not caecilians nor the extinct allocaudates. [1] The name Batrachia was first used by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1800 to refer to frogs, but has more recently been defined in a phylogenetic sense as a node-based taxon that includes the last common ancestor of frogs and ...
From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed).This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.