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Definition of Family Ranidae
1. Noun. A family nearly cosmopolitan in distribution: true frogs.
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Family
Group relationships: Anura, Batrachia, Order Anura, Order Batrachia, Order Salientia, Salientia
Member holonyms: Genus Rana, Rana, Ranid, True Frog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Ranidae
Literary usage of Family Ranidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The family Ranidae embraces a large number of genera, some of which are very
remarkable. Among these may be mentioned the hairy frog of West Africa, ..."
2. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1913)
"Siren, Siren lacertina 2 years Family RANIDAE Bull Frog, Rana catesbiana 2 years
Salt-marsh Frog, Rana virescens , 6 to 8 months Pickerel Frog, ..."
3. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1853)
"... that the Forfarshire fossils were the spawn of Batrachians of the family
Ranidae; and upon comparing them with a mass of carbonized recent frogs' eggs, ..."
4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"The native "true frogs" (family Ranidae) of western North America are all suffering
range contractions, massive population declines, or both (Vial and ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1852)
"... that the Forfarshire fossils were the spawn of Batrachians of the family
Ranidae; and upon comparing them with a mass of carbonized recent frogs' eggs, ..."
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