Home › Words › B › batrachianbatrachian/bəˈtɹeɪkɪən/batrachian means pertaining to or resembling a frog or toad.batrachian is pronounced /bəˈtɹeɪkɪən/.EtymologyFrom New Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Ancient Greek βατράχεια (batrákheia), neuter plural of adjective from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).adjPertaining to or resembling a frog or toad.e.g.“Near-synonyms: froggish, froggy, froglike, frogly, ranid, ranine, toadish, toadlike, toadly, toady”nounAny frog (narrow sense) or toad.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.toadlike 76% match — Similar to, or resembling, a toad. vs batrachian →froggish 75% match — Resembling or characteristic of a frog (amphibian). vs batrachian →batrachylid 74% match — Any frog of the family Batrachylidae vs batrachian →froglike 74% match — Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog. vs batrachian →bufoniform 72% match — Resembling a toad. vs batrachian →batrachophagous 72% match — Feeding on frogs. vs batrachian →batrachoidiform 71% match — Any toadfish of the order Batrachoidiformes vs batrachian →batrachoid 71% match — Frog-like; batrachian. vs batrachian →