frog
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 →
2) «A frog in your throat» means a croaky voice. tree →
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 →
- The frog jumped 10 inches farther than the grasshopper. tree →
- How far did the frog jump? tree →
- There are 8 frogs in the pond. tree →
- A tadpole grows into a frog. tree →
- Frogs lay their eggs in water. tree →
- The frog caught a fly with its long tongue. tree →
- We played leapfrog in the playground. tree →
- The Frog puffed up still more. tree →
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.
- The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.
- Zoos keep rescue groups of rare frogs in clean rooms until the wild is safe again.
- After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.
- Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs.
Trees and pragmatics
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