flying frog

noun

flying frog

noun

1

Any type of frog with the ability to glide.

This is, I believe, the first instance known of a "flying frog," and it is very interesting to Darwinians as showing that the variability of the toes which have been already modified for purposes of swimming and adhesive climbing, have been taken advantage of to enable an allied species to pass through the air like the flying lizard.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 61:

Derived terms: Wallace's flying frog

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