tailed frog

tailed frog  (tld)

n.

A frog (Ascaphus turei) of the Pacific Northwest, having in the male an external cloaca that resembles a tail and serves as a copulatory organ at breeding time.

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Noun

1.

tailed frog - western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ Ascaphus trui, bell toad, ribbed toad, tailed toad anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog - any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species Ascaphus, genus Ascaphus - type genus of the Ascaphidae; in some classifications included in the family Leiopelmatidae