crab-eating frog

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

crab-eating frog (plural crab-eating frogs)

1. A species of frog, Fejervarya cancrivora, native to southeast Asia.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 15:

     Lo, the crab-eating frog, which lives in mangrove swamps and marshes, and is the only known modern amphibian which can tolerate salty water.