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名詞

African clawed frog (複数形 African clawed frogs)

1. A clawed frog found in southern Africa, Xenopus laevis, that has some properties very useful for genetics.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin 2019, p. 283:

     Heaven knows what led him to do it, but Hogben found that if you injected an African clawed frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, within hours it would lay eggs.

同意語

• (Xenopus laevis): xenopus, African clawed toad, platanna, common platanna