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anoure

French, adjective/a.nuʁ/

anoure is a French adjective meaning “tailless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépourvu de queue”.

What does anoure mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    tailless

  2. 2

    An amphibian of the order Anura; a frog.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Dépourvu de queue.

noun: 1. Animal sans queue. Se dit en particulier des amphibiens dépourvus de queue à l'âge adulte et possédant des membres postérieurs adaptés au saut.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of anoure

  • anoures plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce anoure?

  • /a.nuʁ/
  • \a.nuʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to anoure

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is anoure in French?

anoure appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).