Definition of "wood-frog" []

• A frog, Rana sylvatica, of the United States. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It is clear that the factors that direct the development of a wood frog's egg so that it becomes a wood-frog and not a tree-toad must lie in the egg itself, as derivatives from the two parent organisms."
• "It was absolutely motionless; the yellow brown of its back, and its dark sides, exactly harmonized in color with the light and dark patches on the log; the color was as concealing, here in its natural surroundings, as is the color of our common wood-frog among the dead leaves of our woods."
• "One day early in June I took a wood-frog in my hand."