What is "batrachians"

Usage examples of "batrachians".

Springing, I hazard, from the stegocephalia, the ancestor of the frogs, these batrachians followed a different line of evolution and acquired the upright position just as man did his from the four-footed folk.

The batrachians were as slow to die as their primeval ancestors, and Kane saw at least one soldier spitted on the blade of a Rillyti as it tripped over its own dangling entrails.

Often their efforts succeeded, for as the heavy batrachians recklessly flung themselves onto the lianas, the dragging weight became too great a burden.

As knowledge spread among them, the batrachians fell into uncertain milling, their excited croaking softened under some indefinable emotion.

Now he was surrounded by scores of savage batrachians, alone in a lost city whose prehuman antiquity his very presence blasphemed.

Raw materials came from salvaged debris and heaps of varicoloured mud the batrachians dug from the swamp.

Before the stunned and terror-stricken soldiers thought to block their rush, the batrachians were in their midst, golden blades slashing murderously, poisoned barbs stabbing into the disordered ranks.

Again and again one of the towering batrachians was pulled down, torn to pieces by mob ferocity, hamstrung or gutted by a well-placed sword stroke, perhaps skewered by the envenomed fang of a captured spear.

The flaring bonfires exposed scores of the monstrous batrachians rising from the muck and slime of the swamp.

Each time the batrachians appeared on the verge of overrunning the line of fortification, a fresh surge of steel and sinew would drive them back again over the red litter of death.

To the smouldering bulwarks the batrachians rushed, their golden blades aflame with hatred for mankind.

Awed by the forces she had unchained, Teres dashed after him, oblivious to the few batrachians who watched in fear.

To her the handmaiden spoke, pointing to the batrachians who stood, paws and forearms melted beneath the robes they had gathered.

Chapter XII Geographical Distribution -- continued Distribution of fresh-water productions -- On the inhabitants of oceanic islands -- Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals -- On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the nearest mainland -- On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification -- Summary of the last and present chapters.

Yet if we compare the older Reptiles and Batrachians, the older Fish, the older Cephalopods, and the eocene Mammals, with the more recent members of the same classes, we must admit that there is some truth in the remark.