Ranine

Quick meaning: Ranine is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or resembling a frog.

Meaning

Of, relating to, or resembling a frog.

More Meanings

1. (zoology) A frog of the subfamily Raninae.
2. (anatomy, now rare) A ranine artery or vein.
3. 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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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; […]

Word Forms

• ranines

Synonyms for ranine

Depending on context, synonyms include froggish, froggy, froglike, frogly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ranarian, frogly, ratly, toadly, reaginic, rhadinoviral.

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