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# frog

«frog» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small green or brown animal with long back legs that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (frog, frogs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A frog is a small green or brown animal with long back legs that jumps and lives near water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#m1)

2) «A frog in your throat» means a croaky voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a jumper in a jumping contest, compared with the grasshopper and the mouse; or animals counted in a pond; in science, a frog is an amphibian: tadpoles hatch from eggs and grow into frogs; phrases: «frog spawn», «a frog in my throat», «leap frog»

### examples

- The grasshopper jumped 19 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x1)
- The frog jumped 10 inches farther than the grasshopper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x2)
- How far did the frog jump? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x3)
- There are 8 frogs in the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x4)
- A tadpole grows into a frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x5)
- Frogs lay their eggs in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x6)
- The frog caught a fly with its long tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x7)
- We played leapfrog in the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x8)
- The Frog puffed up still more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/#x9)

### note

Countable: a frog, frogs. A name in a comparison: «the frog jumped N inches farther than X» means add N to X. Trap: «farther» adds, «less than» takes away; find who is compared to whom. Myth: touching a frog does not give you warts, but wash your hands after.

### In the corpora

- [A frog swallows prey whole and pulls its eyeballs down into its head to help push the food down its throat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/10/)
- [The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/12/)
- [Zoos keep rescue groups of rare frogs in clean rooms until the wild is safe again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue/8/)
- [After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/16/)
- [Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frog» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frog/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.