Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hylodes

Hylodes , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} woody, wooded, muddy; {not transcribed} a wood + e'i^dos form.]

(Zoology) 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.