ranid

[ran-id, rey-nid]

ran·id

[ran-id, rey-nid]
adjective
1.
belonging or pertaining to the frog family Ranidae, characterized by smooth, moist skin and semiaquatic habits.
noun
2.
frog1 (def. 2).

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Ranid is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

Origin:
1885–90; < Neo-Latin Ranidae, equivalent to Ran(a) a genus (Latin rāna frog) + -idae -id2
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ranid

noun
insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs [syn: true frog
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