Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crab-eating frog

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables: crab-eat-ing frog
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of frog, Fejervarya cancrivora, native to southeast Asia.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

crab-eating frogs (plural)

Rhymes With

everybody and their dog man bites dog go the whole hog -alogue

Questions

What does crab-eating frog mean?: A species of frog, Fejervarya cancrivora, native to southeast Asia.

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