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ghost frog

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables
ghost frog
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of frogs in the family Heleophrynidae, which live in mountain streams in South Africa.

Etymology

Compound of ghost + frog. Perhaps because of their occurrence in Skeleton Gorge.

Inflected Forms

ghost frogs (plural)

Phrases

eastern ghost frog Hewitt's ghost frog Natal ghost frog Purcell's ghost frog Rose's ghost frog royal ghost frog

Questions

What does ghost frog mean?
Any of a group of frogs in the family Heleophrynidae, which live in mountain streams in South Africa.
Where does ghost frog come from?
Compound of ghost + frog. Perhaps because of their occurrence in Skeleton Gorge.

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