Any frog of arboreal habits; often loosely used for tree-toad.
1738. Mortimer, in Phil. Trans., XL. 348, 71. Rana viridis arborea. The green Tree Frog. These Frogs are always found sticking to the under Sides of Leaves of Trees, and other Plants.
1802. Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), II. 389. Hylæ, or Tree-Frogs,… are generally smaller than Frogs, and more elegant in all their proportions.
1849. Cupples, Green Hand, xv. At times the tree-frogs broke out in a loud clicking chirrup.
1860. Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 28. Then there come … sounds like the snoring of an oppressed sleeper,… or … the groaning … of a ship’s timbers in a heavy gale…. These are produced by great tree-frogs.
