Batrachia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Batrachia \Ba*tra"chi*a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. batra`cheios
     belonging to a frog, fr. ba`trachos frog.] (Zool.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Batrachia
       n : frogs, toads, tree toads [syn: {Salientia}, {order Salientia},
            {Anura}, {order Anura}, {order Batrachia}]