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Hyla Pickeringii
(gcide) | Hylodes \Hy*lo"des\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? woody, wooded, muddy; ?
a wood + e'i^dos form.] (Zool.)
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.
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Hyla Pickeringii
(gcide) | Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From Pipe, v.]
1. Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping
swains." --Swift.
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2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of
the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
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3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
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4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
of boiling fluids.
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Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller (Zool.),
any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp.
Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the
size of a small crow. Called also caruck.
Piping frog (Zool.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla
Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early
spring.
Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.]
--Milton.
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