toad
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- noun
- /toʊd/
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- During our hike, we spotted a rare toad blending in with the rocks by the stream.
- frogs and toads
- toad tadpoles
- male toads
The scorpion stings this toad and the toad dies.
- The scorpion stings this toad and the toad dies.
- So he gets a box and he goes out and gets the toad and puts it into the box.
- We, like I told you before this, we were catching cane toads just so that he could.
- And these toads are different in the shape and in their behavior.
- So once again, my money is on the challenger, not the poison toad.
- It's a different chemical that it is the smoked venom of the Sonoran Desert toad.
- He finds a toad and picks it up and then drives back to to see his wife.
- I mean, a city in the Panhandle of Oklahoma that is called Hooker, and their team mascot is the Hooker Horny Toads.
- It's like the toad, but worse, more overwhelming than the toad.
Examples
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During the breeding season, male frogs and toads will "call" or vocalize to attract females.
Academic text (1996) -
If a man could look like a toad and still be a man, this is he.
Fiction book (1991) -
And these toads are different in the shape and in their behavior.
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He finds a toad and picks it up and then drives back to to see his wife.
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No, they say all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads.
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But in early February, the situation changed when green toads, Bufo viridis, entered the pools to mate.
Academic text (1992) -
The children watched in awe as the large, warty toad hopped along the path near the pond.
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In her garden, she discovered a small brown toad sitting quietly among the flowers.
Synonyms
A small animal like a frog with bumpy skin that lives on land
A tailless amphibian with dry, warty skin that lives mostly on land
A frog or toad with long hind legs for leaping
A type of animal like a frog or toad that usually has no tail and long back legs for jumping
A frog or toad that has no tail as an adult
A group of animals that includes frogs and toads
A group of cold-blooded animals that live both in water and on land like frogs and salamanders
Compounds
- Australian
A quick spread of cane toads into new areas that harms native animals and plants
A small toad with a very narrow mouth that lives in the southeastern United States
A small green or yellow-green toad with black bars and stripes found in North America
A small European animal whose male carries fertilized eggs around his hind legs until they hatch
A small frog often heard along the Pacific coast that makes a loud repeating call
- Specialized
A South American toad that carries and protects its babies in pockets on its back
- US
A toad that lives in dry woods and open land in the US southwest and comes out at night
- Specialized
A short, thick toad with bumpy skin that lives near desert streams in the southwestern United States
A small toad with smooth tough skin that hides and lives in central and western North America
- US
A large toad that lives west of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Baja California
A toad that lives in high meadows and forest edges in California's Sierra Nevada
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Toad comes from an old English word that already named the same bumpy animal that lives in water and on land, and it appears in the familiar word toadstool, a name for mushrooms once imagined as a 'seat' for toads. That's why toad still means the dry, warty animal you might find in a garden today.