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The order Anura ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and oura, tail ) comprises the frogs and toads.
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Authorities disagree as to whether Salientia is a superorder that includes the order Anura, or whether Anura is a sub-order of the order Salientia.
For instance, Anura is the name of the order of frogs but also is the name of a genus of plants ( although not current: it is a synonym ); Aotus is the genus of golden peas and night monkeys ; Oenanthe is the genus of wheatears and water dropworts, Prunella is the genus of accentors and self-heal, and Proboscidea is the order of elephants and the genus of devil's claws.
Frogs are a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians comprising the order Anura ( Ancient Greek an -, without + oura, tail ).
Approximately 88 % of amphibian species are classified in the order Anura.
Salientia ( Latin salere ( salio ), " to jump ") is a stem group including modern frogs in the order Anura and their close fossil relatives the " proto-frogs " ( e. g., Triadobatrachus and Czatkobatrachus ).
From a classification perspective, all members of the order Anura are frogs, but only members of the family Bufonidae are considered " true toads ".
A toad is any of a number of species of amphibians in the order Anura ( frogs ) characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and snout-like parotoid glands.
Amphibious and amphibiotic animals, like frogs ( the order Anura ), while they do require water, are separated into their own environmental classification.
Neobatrachia are a suborder of the Anura, the order of frogs and toads.
A toad is a species within the amphibian order Anura.
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a critical habitat for certain species of the order Anura.
Parsley frogs or Pelodytidae, is a family of order Anura.
Mantellidae is a family of the order Anura.
Glass frog ( or Glassfrogs ) is the common name for the frogs of the amphibian family Centrolenidae ( order Anura ).
The Mexican Burrowing Toad ( Rhinophrynus dorsalis ) is the only species in the genus Rhinophrynus and the family Rhinophrynidae of order Anura.
The Heleophrynidae, is a family of order Anura, commonly known as ghost frogs.
The saddleback toads are the family Brachycephalidae () in the order Anura.
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No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
He hung around the schoolhouse, watching through a window from outside while Miss Langford straightened desks and put the room in order.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).
For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.
For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.
Thus with regard to the loss of tradition, in the change from order to disorder the metaphysics of change works itself out as a disruption of the individual soul, a change in which man continues as an objective ontological existent, but no longer as a man.
The stars constitute an order of existence different from what we encounter on earth.
In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.
Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.
They order the manifold levels of reality and moral value along an axis of being which extends from brute matter to the immaculate stars.
Small wonder that Milton later boasted of how well his work had been received there, since he attained a rank in the order of commencing bachelors higher than that of any other inceptor from Christ's of that year.
Arriving just in time to stop men from turning their planet into a radioactive wasteland, the Overlords unite earth into one world in which justice, order, and benevolence prevail and ignorance, poverty, and fear have ceased to exist.
In order to write with authority either about musicians, or as a musician, Patchen would have to soft pedal his characteristically outspoken anger, and change ( at least for the purposes of this poetry ) from a revolutionary to a victim.
Apologies are in order from anybody who said, `` Are you sure you're not making a mistake ''??
Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.
( A wry sidelight on this is that most of my students have deferments from the draft in order to attend my classes.
He opened it a crack and in doing so made as much shuffling, coughing, and scraping noise as possible in order to drown emanations from the hen who had begun to protest.
If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.
order and Ancient
The order Gymnophiona ( from the Greek, gymnos and ophis meaning " naked serpent ") or Apoda ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and poda, legs ) comprise the caecilians.
Merlin was an Ancient, fleeing from Atlantis and later Ascends, then comes back in order build the Sangraal, or Holy Grail, to defeat the Ori.
Ancient authors were almost invariably from an elite background for whom giving poor and uneducated people power over their betters seemed a reversal of the proper, rational order of society.
Ancient Romans abhorred the name Rex (" king "), and it was critical to the political order to maintain the forms and pretenses of republican rule.
Ancient Greek tended to be verb-final, while neutral word order in the modern language is VSO or SVO.
Ancient Greeks were among the first civilizations to use symbols consistently in order to identify a warrior, clan or a state.
By the time of Cicero he had become " the dark " ( Ancient Greek — ) because he had spoken nimis obscurē, " too obscurely ", concerning nature and had done so deliberately in order to be misunderstood.
In Ancient Rome there was a knightly class Ordo Equestris ( order of mounted nobles ) from which European knighthood may have been derived.
The Ancient Greeks perceived order in the universe, and in turn, applied order and reason to their creations.
The architecture of the Ancient Greeks, and in particular, temple architecture, responds to these challenges with a passion for beauty, and for order and symmetry which is the product of a continual search for perfection, rather than a simple application of a set of working rules.
Chronology ( from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek, chronos, " time "; and ,-logia ) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time, such as the use of a timeline or sequence of events.
In Scotland, the position of Rector exists in the four Ancient Universities-( St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh ) ( in order of foundation ) and at Dundee, which is considered to have Ancient status as a result of its early connections to St. Andrews University.
He is best known for the monumental shrine, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, erected for him by order of his sister and widow Artemisia ; Antipater of Sidon listed the Mausoleum as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Ancient Romans made an extra bed after the birth of a child in order to ensure the help of Pilumnus.
The notion of a universal principle of natural order is by no means unique to the Vedas, and Ṛta has been compared to similar ideas in other cultures, such as Ma ' at in Ancient Egyptian religion, Moira and the Logos in Greek paganism, and the Tao.
In 1831 he entered the competition for the design of Birmingham Town Hall, the design was based on a Ancient Greek temple of the Doric order, but it failed to win the competition.
Ancient and modern authors have accused him of folly, but Totila probably sought to close with the enemy as fast as possible in order to avoid the effects of the formidable Byzantine archery.
Isis is said in Ancient Egyptian mythology to have taken the form of a kite in various situations in order to ressurect the dead.
The binomial name is derived from Latin Podilymbus, a contraction of podicipes (" feet at the buttocks ", from podici -, " rump -" + pes, " foot ")— the origin of the name of the grebe order — and Ancient Greek kolymbos, " diver ", and podiceps, " rump-headed ", from podici-+ New Latin ceps.
'" In Ancient Greek thinking, the connection between postmortem disappearance and apotheosis was strong and there are numerous examples of individuals conspiring, before their deaths, to have their remains hidden in order to promote their postmortem venerations.
David Herd ( 1732 – 1810 ), the collector of the classic edition of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs ( 1776 ), was " sovereign " of the Cape ( in which he was known as " Sir Scrape ") when Fergusson was dubbed a knight of the order, with the title of " Sir Precentor ", in allusion to his fine voice.
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