ranine

English

Etymology

From Latin rānīnus, from rāna (“frog”) + -īnus (“of or pertaining to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪˌnaɪn/
• Hyphenation: ran‧ine

Adjective

ranine (comparative more ranine, superlative most ranine)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a frog. [from 1840]
2. Relating to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, relating to the region where the swelling occurs, especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein. [from 1675]

Synonyms

• (relating to a frog): froggish, froggy, froglike, frogly

Translations

resembling a frog — see froglike

See also

• (relating to a frog): anuran, batrachian, salientian, toadish, toadlike, toadly

Noun

ranine (plural ranines)

1. (zoology) A frog of the subfamily Raninae. [from 1970s]

   Hypernym: ranid

   • 1973, Jay M[athers] Savage, “Ranidae”, in James L. Vial, editor, Evolutionary Biology of the Anurans: Contemporary Research on Major Problems, Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, part III (Acoustic, Genetic, and Geographic Considerations), chapter 13 (The Geographic Distribution of Frogs: Patterns and Predictions), page 425:

     In the Cenozoic, extensive radiation took place in this family in Africa among the endemic phrynobatrachines, arthroleptines, hemisines, and the more wide-ranging ranines.

   • 1974, Joel Cracraft, “Continental Drift and Vertebrate Distribution”, in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 5, Palo Alto, Calif.: Annual Reviews, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 231:

     Two major invasions into Eurasia are postulated: the first involving the Raninae, which gave rise to (a) those ranines that eventually dispersed to the New World and (b) the Platymantinae of Southeast Asia and Australasia, and the second involving the Rhacophorinae.

   • 1986, William E[dward] Duellman, Linda Trueb, “Madagascar-Seychelles-Australia”, in Biology of Amphibians, Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition, Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, published 1994, part 4 (Evolution), chapter 18 (Biogeography), “Anura” section, page 487, column 2:

     The ranids consisted of ranines and the stock that gave rise to the mantellines.

   • 1995 January, B[rian] A. Wilson, G[erhard] v[an] d[er] Horst, A[lan] Channing, “A comparison of Ranid versus Rhacophorid sperm: two extremes”, in Madoqua: Journal of Nature Conservation Research, South West Africa, volume 19, number 1, Windhoek: Nature Conservation and Tourism Division of the South West Africa Administration, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61:

     The ranines occupy fertilization environments within bodies of water (aquatic) and the African rhacophorids in a foam nest on a tree branch (terrestrial).

2. (anatomy, now rare) A ranine artery or vein. [from 1753]
   • 1842, “Tongue”, in W[illiam] T[homas] Brande, Joseph Cauvin, editors, A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge; […], London: […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 1243, column 1:

     The tongue is largely supplied by blood vessels, its arteries being branches of the ranine and labial, and its veins emptying into the great linguals which proceed to the external jugular; […]

   • 1898 June 25, “Evelina Hospital for Sick Children. A Case of Alveolar Abscess; Death from Pyæmia in Eight Days; Necropsy. (Under the Care of Dr. F. Willcocks.)”, in The Lancet, number 3904, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, “A Mirror of Hospital Practice, British and Foreign” section, page 1756, column 1:

     The lingual, the ranine, and the lower part of the facial vein, together with the common facial and the anterior and posterior divisions of the temporo-maxillary vein, were full of pus, the external jugular having been removed at the operation.

   • 1914, Charles R[ichard] Whittaker, “Lingual Vessels”, in A Manual of Surgical Anatomy, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: E[dward] & S[tuart] Livingstone […], →OCLC, section III (The Head and Neck), “The Mouth and Pharynx” subsection, page 174:

     In the substance of the tongue only two anastomoses take place between the lingual arteries: (a) the ranines communicate at the tip of the tongue; and (b) the dorsales linguæ inosculate around the foramen cæcum.

Anagrams

• Narine, earnin', inaner, narine

French

Adjective

ranine

1. feminine singular of ranin