tode
9.9
A small animal like a frog with bumpy skin that lives on land
- noun
- Archaic
:
sapo
- My grandmother pointed out a tode resting on a log by the pond.
Examples
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To be is to be determinate, a tode ti. '7
Academic text (2017) -
The old legend spoke of a mystical tode that lived in the swamp.
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As the sun set, we could hear the croaking of a tode nearby.
Synonyms
toad
vstode
98
1.0
A small animal like a frog with a thick body and dry, bumpy skin
is an archaic name for that same small warty amphibian
8.2
A tailless amphibian with dry, warty skin that lives mostly on land
is a general older term for such small warty amphibians, not family-specific
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tode is an old form of toad, the common word for the warty little amphibian often found in gardens, so you can remember tode simply as the old word for 'toad'.