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Small Puerto Rican frog with an onomatopoetic name
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coqui
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Coquí is the common name for several species of small frogs in the Eleutherodactylus genus that are native to Puerto Rico . They are onomatopoeically named for the very loud mating call which the males of two species, the common coquí and the mountain coquí ...
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n. coqui frog
Usage examples of coqui.
The air was fragrant with honeysuckle and frangipani, and the little coqui chirruped in time with accordion music wafting from a gypsy band playing outside the theater.
Maxwell Brown has also traced the perpetual discovery and rediscovery of America from the days of the Aalesund tablets and the early Chinese inscriptions in the caves near Bahia Coqui to the final establishment of uninterrupted communications across the Atlantic by the Western Europeans in the fifteenth century C.
Even the coqui, the little green frogs that lived in the trees had stopped croaking.
The penetrating call of the coqui francolins floated up to the old man and the tall young one where they stood on the edge of the escarpment watching the brown-speckled birds picking their way gingerly through the wet grass.
The word coquis had come out of her mouth as though she had heard it a hundred times.
Three's a crowd, she thought, with a giddy sense of horror and black humor, remembering the sound of the coquis in the trees.
She focused on the engine's whine, trying to drown out the coquis, the sounds of which seemed to be mocking her in some horrible fashion from the depths of her memory.
All the bustle muted the sound of the coquis still singing in her ears.