alytid

English

Noun

alytid (plural alytids)

1. A primitive frog of the family Alytidae.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 36:

     More venerable, and more distinctly European than any other creatures, the alytids are living fossils that should be considered nature's nobility.