a. [f. Gr. βάτραχ-ος frog + -ειδής like (cf. Gr. βατραχώδης); see -OID.] Resembling a frog, frog-like.

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1825.  Southey, in Q. Rev., XXXI. 384. Compared with all other batrachoid colonies … the frogs of Cintra are the … nobles of the species.

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1854.  Owen, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., Org. Nat., I. 187. The most batrachoid of fishes.

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