leap leaping spring saltation bound bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
frog kick | a swimming kick, knees are drawn upward and outward so the legs can be brought together when fully extended |
appeal | (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial, their appeal was denied in the superior court |
frog toad toad frog anuran batrachian salientian | any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping, semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
true frog ranid | insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs |
wood-frog wood frog Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
leopard frog spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
cascades frog Rana cascadae | mountain frog found near water, of United States Northwest to California |
goliath frog Rana goliath | largest living frog, up to a foot and weighing up tolbs, Africa |
pickerel frog Rana palustris | a meadow frog of eastern North America |
tarahumara frog Rana tarahumarae | Mexican frog found within a jump or two of water |
grass frog Rana temporaria | a common semiterrestrial European frog |
leptodactylid frog leptodactylid | toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal |
robber frog | small terrestrial frog of tropical America |
barking frog robber frog Hylactophryne augusti | of southwest United States and Mexico, call is like a dog's bark |
tree frog tree-frog | any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes |
tailed frog bell toad ribbed toad tailed toad Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
tree toad tree frog tree-frog | arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe, of southeast Asia and Australia and America |
chameleon tree frog | a form of tree toad |
cricket frog | either of two frogs with a clicking call |
northern cricket frog Acris crepitans | a cricket frog of eastern and central United States |
eastern cricket frog Acris gryllus | a cricket frog of eastern United States |
chorus frog | any of several small North American frogs having a loud call |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
sheep frog | mostly of Central America |
tongueless frog | almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America |
African clawed frog Xenopus laevis | a tongueless frog native to Africa, established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals |
horned lizard horned toad horny frog | insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body, of western North America |
frog | a decorative loop of braid or cord |
charisma personal appeal personal magnetism | a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others |
sex appeal desirability desirableness oomph | attractiveness to the opposite sex |
appeal appealingness charm | attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates, his smile was part of his appeal to her |
leap | the distance leaped (or to be leaped), a leap offeet |
solicitation appeal collection ingathering | request for a sum of money, an appeal to raise money for starving children |
entreaty prayer appeal | earnest or urgent request, an entreaty to stop the fighting, an appeal for help, an appeal to the public to keep calm |
leap jump saltation | an abrupt transition, a successful leap from college to the major leagues |
quantum leap quantum jump | a sudden large increase or advance, this may not insure success but it will represent a quantum leap from last summer |
jump leap | a sudden and decisive increase, a jump in attendance |
frog legs | hind legs of frogs used as food, resemble chicken and cooked as chicken |
appeal board appeals board board of appeals | a board of officials that are not judicial but are appointed to hear appeals |
frog Gaul | a person of French descent |
frog orchid Coeloglossum viride | orchid having hooded long-bracted green to yellow-green flowers suffused with purple |
frog orchid | any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria |
Hydrocharitaceae family Hydrocharitaceae Hydrocharidaceae family Hydrocharidaceae frogbit family frog's-bit family | simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants, widely distributed |
frogbit frog's-bit Hydrocharis morsusanae | European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers |
frog's lettuce | very similar to Potamogeton, of western Africa, Asia, and Europe |
leap day bissextile day February | the name of the day that is added during a leap year |
leap year intercalary year days bissextile year | in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by except centenary years divisible by |
leap second | a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotation |