a. [f. Gr. βάτραχ-ος frog + -ειδής like (cf. Gr. βατραχώδης); see -OID.] Resembling a frog, frog-like.
1825. Southey, in Q. Rev., XXXI. 384. Compared with all other batrachoid colonies the frogs of Cintra are the nobles of the species.
1854. Owen, in Orrs Circ. Sc., Org. Nat., I. 187. The most batrachoid of fishes.