African clawed frog

English

An African clawed frog

Noun

African clawed frog (plural African clawed frogs)

1. A clawed frog found in southern Africa, Xenopus laevis, that has some properties very useful for genetics.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 283:

     Heaven knows what led him to do it, but Hogben found that if you injected an African clawed frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, within hours it would lay eggs.

Synonyms

• (Xenopus laevis): xenopus, African clawed toad, platanna, common platanna

Translations

frog

• Italian: xenopo m
• Portuguese: rã-de-unhas-africana f
• Russian: гла́дкая шпо́рцевая лягу́шка f (gládkaja špórcevaja ljagúška)

References

• African clawed frog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xenopus laevis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Xenopus laevis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons