tree frog (trefrog)

Any batrachian which lives in trees. (a) A tree-toad. (b) More properly, a true frog (belonging to the family Ranida ) of arboreal habits. There are many species, of different genera, in the Old World. Some have suckers on their toes and some have webbed hind toes. See cut under flying -frog. - Spurred tree-frog. See spurred. tree-fuchsia (trēʼfūshiä), n. A fuchsia trained in tree form. tree-germander (trē ́jėr-man"der), n. A shrub,. Teucrium fruticans, of the Mediterranean region, also cultivated in gardens. tree-goldenrod (trē'gol dn-rod), n. An amarantaceous plant, Bosia Yervamora, of the Canaries, a robust ill-smelling shrub with virgate branches, bearing nearly spicate axillary and terminal racemes of small flowers. tree-goose (trē'gös), n. 1. A cirriped of the genus Lepas or An at if a; a barnacle; a goose mu el. See An at if a, Lepas, and cut under bar nacle1, 2.-2. The barnacle-goose, Bernicla leu cops is: from the old fable that they grow on trees from barnacles. See cut under barnacle. Whereas those scattered trees, which naturally partake The fatne of the soil (in many a slimy lake Their roots so deeply soak'd), send from their stocky bough A soft and sappy gum, from which those tree - geese grow Call'd barnacles by us. Drayton , Polyolbion, xxvii. 304. tree-hair (tre'har), n. Same as horsetail - lichen . tree-heath (trēʼheth), n. See heath , 2, and bruyère. tree-hoopoe (tre'höpō), n. nus Irrisor (which see, with cut). Also called wood hoopoe. A bird of the ge Buffalo Tree-hopper ( Cere