Crossword-Solution: BATRACHIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Batrachia | n. pl. | The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia. |
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| group of amphibians including frogs and toads | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BATRACHIA (5)
The brain and nervous system display the same progressive ascent from the brainless acrania, up through the fishes, batrachia, reptiles, and birds to the top in mammals.
The same applies to the most advanced of the Amphibia, the Batrachia (frogs and toads); some of them have entirely lost the gill-bearing larva form.* (* The tree-frog of Martinique (Hylades martinicensis) loses the gills on the seventh, and the tail and yelk-sac on the eighth, day of foetal life.
The metamorphosis goes farther in a third order of Amphibia, the Batrachia or Anura, than in the salamander.
For comparative anatomical and ontogenetic reasons, we must not seek these amphibian ancestors of ours--as one would be inclined to do, perhaps--among the tail-less Batrachia, but among the tailed lower Amphibia.
Thus, three of Cuvier’s four orders of reptilia (_sauria_, _chelonia_, and _batrachia_) are represented in this formation, the serpent order (_ophidia_) being alone wanting.