toad : Idioms & Phrases

• noun largest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests
  Bufo marinus; agua.
  

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• noun small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes
  Bufo debilis.
  

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• noun common toad of America
  Bufo americanus.
  

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• noun western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ
  Ascaphus trui; ribbed toad; tailed frog; bell toad.
  

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• noun small toad of southeastern United States
  Gastrophryne carolinensis.
  

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• noun Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring
  Bufo viridis.
  

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• noun common toad of Europe
  Bufo bufo.
  

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• noun toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches mixed with black on its underside
  Bombina bombina.
  

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• noun insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America
  horned lizard; horny frog.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard.

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• noun similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians
  Alytes cisternasi.
  
• noun European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch
  Alytes obstetricans; midwife toad.
  

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• noun European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch
  Alytes obstetricans; midwife toad.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a European toad of the genus Alytes, especially A. obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched.

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• noun the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America
  Hyla regilla.
  

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• noun western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ
  Ascaphus trui; ribbed toad; tailed frog; bell toad.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the natterjack.

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Sea" toad`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A sculpin. (b) A toadfish. (c) The angler.

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• noun a South American toad
  

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• noun a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States
  Bufo microscaphus.
  

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• noun a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot
  spadefoot.
  

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• noun a South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back
  Pipa americana; Pipa pipa.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Pita.

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• noun western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ
  Ascaphus trui; ribbed toad; tailed frog; bell toad.
  

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• noun nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest
  Bufo speciosus.
  

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• noun any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
  toad; batrachian; salientian; anuran; frog.
  

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• noun a floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers; wet areas at high elevations of western North America
  Montia chamissoi.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a horned toad.

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• (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant (Equisetum limosum) growing in muddy places. Dr. Prior.

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• noun low-growing annual rush of damp low-lying ground; nearly cosmopolitan
  Juncus bufonius.
  

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• (Bot.), a low-growing kind of rush (Juncus bufonius).

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• (Zoöl.), the reed bunting. Prov. Eng.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

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• noun sausage baked in batter
  

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• noun arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
  tree frog; tree-frog.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of amphibians belonging to Hyla and allied genera of the family Hylidæ. They are related to the common frogs and toads, but have the tips of the toes expanded into suckers by means of which they cling to the bark and leaves of trees. Only one species (Hyla arborea) is found in Europe, but numerous species occur in America and Australia. The common tree toad of the Northern United States (H. versicolor) is noted for the facility with which it changes its colors. Called also tree frog. See also Piping frog, under Piping, and Cricket frog, under Cricket.

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• noun tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin
  

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• noun small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America
  Gastrophryne olivacea.
  

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• noun of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies
  Bufo boreas.
  

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• noun of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders
  Bufo canorus.
  

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