spring peeper

spring peeper

noun
a tree frog, Hyla crucifer, having an X-shaped mark on the back and voicing a shrill call commonly heard near ponds and swamps of eastern North America in the early spring.

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism
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Spring peeper is always a great word to know.
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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 calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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spring peeper

noun
a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring 
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