horned frog

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A horned frog (1)
A horned frog (2)
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horned frog (plural horned frogs)

  1. Any of several large carnivorous frogs, of the genus Megophrys, that have elongated "eyebrows"
  2. (US) Synonym of horned lizard; genus Phrynosoma, especially the Texas horned lizard.
    • 1855, John Wright, William Wright, Recollections of Western Texas[1], published 1995, page 41:
      But among all the harmless reptiles of Texas, decidedly the most singular is the horned frog; it resembles the common frog []
    • 1912, J. W. Reading, “Locomotive Engineers Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 47:
      The horned frog is a native of Texas and Lower California, where he is found inhabiting the sandy soil of the prairies and the pockets of the small boy. / The horned frog is really no frog at all, but a lizard traveling incognito.
    • 2012, Lonn Taylor, Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy[2]:
      I have always had aspecial affinity for horned toads, probably because I went to Texas Christian University, whose mascot is the horned frog

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