Definition of Rana sylvatica

1. Noun. Wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce.

Exact synonyms: Wood Frog, Wood-frog
Group relationships: Genus Rana, Rana
Generic synonyms: Ranid, True Frog

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rana Sylvatica

Ramsden disk
Ramsden eyepiece
Ramses
Ramses II
Ramses the Great
Ramsey
Ramsey theory
Ramsgate
Ramsons
Ramstedt operation
Rana cascadae
Rana clamitans
Rana goliath
Rana palustris
Rana pipiens
Rana sylvatica
Rana tarahumarae
Ranales
Ranatra
Ranchi
Rand formula
Randal
Randall
Randall's plaques
Randall Jarrell
Randall stone forceps
Randian
Randianism

Literary usage of Rana sylvatica

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1912)
"... White oak Red oak Hickory [rana sylvatica Association] Ì IV, B, ... B, [Rana sylvatica Association] Tulip Hickory Basswood Red oak White elm and white ..."

2. North American Anura: Life-histories of the Anura of Ithaca, New Yorkby Albert Hazen Wright by Albert Hazen Wright (1914)
"Egg-masses of rana sylvatica. Both masses are globular; the upper mass is 2. ... K. Bufo lentiginosus an (one year oltl). J. rana sylvatica. ..."

3. The Frog Book: North American Toads and Frogs, with a Study of the Habits by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1906)
"Its relationship to rana sylvatica is also shown by its northern distribution, ... (rana sylvatica is the earliest frog to appear in the spring in the ..."

4. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles by Leonhard Stejneger, Thomas Barbour (1917)
"99. TYPE LOCALITY: Near St. John's River, Florida. RANGE : Southeastern States rana sylvatica LE CONTE WOOD-FROG rana sylvatica LE CONTE Ann. Lye ..."

5. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"It will make you as cool and well as a frog, — a wood frog, rana sylvatica. It is the scent the earth yielded in the saurian period, before man was created ..."

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