Rana sylvatica
- noun
- Specialized
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rana sylvatica
- The Rana sylvatica, commonly known as the wood frog, can be found near the wetlands of northern forests.
- the wood frog
- the frog
Examples
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The wood frog (Rana sylvatica), a common pool-breeding and forest-dwelling frog of North America, provides a sample application of the power analysis approach described in this article.
Academic text (1998) -
During spring, the Rana sylvatica is often heard calling in the moist woodlands as it looks for mates.
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The distinctive brown color of the Rana sylvatica helps it blend in among the fallen leaves in the forest.
Synonyms
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A small light brown frog that lives in moist North American forests
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Rana + sylvatica
This is a scientific Latin binomial rather than a normal English phrase; an average B1 learner who knows 'Rana' only as a taxonomic label and does not know Latin will not be able to infer 'wood frog' from the parts because 'sylvatica' is absent from the learner lexicon. Although 'sylvatica' ultimately derives from Latin for 'of the woods' (a cognate in some languages), that etymological knowledge is specialized and not predictable for B1 learners, so the name is effectively opaque.
Etymology
Rana sylvatica comes from two Latin words: Rana meaning 'frog' and sylvatica meaning 'of the woods'. So the name literally says 'wood frog', which fits this small frog that lives in forests and cold places.