The word 'frog' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is a noun that refers to a small hopping amphibian with smooth skin, typically green or brown in color. Example: The children went on a nature walk and were excited to spot a tiny frog hopping through the grass.
Hebridean sheep graze freely on the Machrihanish Dunes course, serving as natural lawnmowers, and the rough is studded with purple pyramid, frog and marsh orchids.
This means the frog is not only extremely distinct, but also highly threatened.
This is why the announcement earlier this month that ZSL's London Zoo had succeeded in rearing the first ever captive Lake Oku clawed frog tadpoles and juveniles is so important.
But the Lake Oku clawed frog has twelve sets, which is a high number even for chromosome abundant organisms like plants.
He is unmoved by the frog murders, drowning mice and sick dog.
So it's been one spring horror after another here, and then the dog poisoned itself by licking frog corpses in the garden.
He might as well have used the metaphor of a frog immersed in water that is slowly brought to the boil.
The EDGE currently lists the Lake Oku clawed frog (Xenopus longipes) as number 35 out of some 7,000 amphibian species in terms of its evolutionary distinctness (or how far they are separated from other species on the tree of life) and its proximity to extinction.
The chromosome-happy frog is a member of an ancient lineage of amphibians known as pipids, which are only represented today by about 30 species that lack tongues and stick solely to water.
Civil servants arriving late to offices were forced to perform frog squats.
At school a friend once told me that if you put a frog into boiling water it jumps straight out, but if you put a frog into cold water and gradually heat it up, it just sits there and boils.
