ADJECTIVE
- relating to frogs and toads
NOUN
- any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
How To Use anuran In A Sentence
- The bactericidal agent triclosan modulates thyroid hormone-associated gene expression and disrupts postembryonic anuran development. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
- A new pipoid anuran from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. Irony raises it froggy head: Late-Jurassic frog fossils from Dinosaur National Monument
- The larva probably possessed the scraping mouth parts and the branchial filter seen in most extant anuran larvae, and likewise probably also pumped water rhythmically.
- Whereas arms and legs have more muscles than segments, the jaws and tongues of anurans are composed of relatively few muscles.
- Most of the anuran saccular volume is filled with a viscous suspension of calcium carbonate crystals.
- Domestic species of thysanurans have the potential to cause extensive damage to household goods.
- As in other vertebrates, the anuran auditory system is susceptible to noise masking.
- Bioacoustic signals appear to be so essential to the social communication of anuran amphibians that other sensory modalities have been largely ignored.
- In the past the collembolans, proturans and two other groups; the diplurans and the thysanurans were all grouped together as the apterygotes or the wingless insects.
- The system is present in urodeles, caecilians, anurans, testudines, mammals, and lepidosaurs.