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hylodes
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hylodes, n. [NL., fr. Gr. woody, wooded, muddy; a wood + e'i^dos form.].
The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii ), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes. [1913 Webster]
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