n.
Any of various aquatic, tongueless, clawed frogs of the genus Xenopus, native to southern Africa, especially X. laevis, widely used in the study of vertebrate development.
[New Latin Xenopūs, genus name : XENO- + Greek pous, foot; see octopus.]
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