edible frog

noun

Any member of a hybrid species Pelophylax × esculentus, a hybrid of pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and Central Asian marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus), of frogs.

Meanings

nounedible frog (plural edible frogs)

plural edible frogs

  1. Any member of a hybrid species Pelophylax × esculentus, a hybrid of pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) and Central Asian marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus), of frogs.
  2. Lithobates clamitans, a North American frog.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see edible, frog.
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