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poison dart frog

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables
poi-son -dart frog
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the poisonous frogs of the family Dendrobatidae.

Etymology

From poison + dart + frog. Named because a few species were used by Native Americans as a source of poison for blowdarts.

Inflected Forms

poison dart frogs (plural)

Phrases

green and black poison-dart frog imitator poison-dart frog strawberry poison-dart frog yellow poison-dart

Synonyms

poison arrow frog dart frog poison frog

Questions

What does poison dart frog mean?
Any of the poisonous frogs of the family Dendrobatidae.
Where does poison dart frog come from?
From poison + dart + frog. Named because a few species were used by Native Americans as a source of poison for blowdarts.

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