toad

Definition of toad in English English dictionary: A very unpleasant man; An amphibian similar to a frog with bigger back legs and more ragged skin; {n} a quadruped with broad body and short legs of several species, living in grass, water, or on trees; Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid; Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidæ; {i} tailless amphibian that has short legs ans a short stout body; any of several animals that look like toads (such as some lizards); nasty person, mean unpleasant person; Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night; A toad is a creature which is similar to a frog but which has a drier skin and spends less time in water. one of the main characters in the children's story The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham. Toad is a rich, proud character who lives in a big house called Toad Hall and thinks he is very important. Any member of 26 genera (order Anura) of mainly terrestrial, nocturnal, tailless amphibians. Toads have a squat body, short legs, external fertilization, and teeth in the upper jaw. They eat insects or small animals. The more than 300 species of true toads (Bufo) are found almost worldwide. They are 1-10 in. (2-25 cm) long and have thick, dry, often warty skin. Poison secreted by glands on the back and warts irritates the eyes and mucous membranes of predators. Some species' poison can paralyze or kill animals as large as dogs, but toads do not cause warts. Toads reproduce by laying in water two long jelly tubes containing 600-30,000 eggs. The genus Nectophrynoides contains the only anurans that bear live young. See also frog, horned toad; Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water; any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
toad in the hole: A traditional English dish of roasted sausages in batter
toad lily: (Botanik, Bitkibilim) Tricyrtis hirta Hook. (Toad Lily, Hairy Toad Lily) is a hardy perennial in the family Liliaceae that is native to Japan, growing on shaded rocky cliffs and stream banks. The flowers are wide with six whitish to pale purple tepals that have dark purple spots
toad lily: a floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers; wet areas at high elevations of western North America
toad rush: low-growing annual rush of damp low-lying ground; nearly cosmopolitan
toad-in-the-hole: sausage baked in batter
toad-in-the-hole: a British dish made of sausages cooked in a mixture of eggs, milk, and flour
cane toad: The toad bufo marinus
Pieces of the deadly cane toad (Bufo marinus) are thought to be contained in some zombi poisons.
frog and toad: Road
I'm just going down the frog and toad to see my old china Dave. (= I'm just going down the road to see my friend Dave.).
hairy toad lily: (Botanik, Bitkibilim) Tricyrtis hirta Hook. (Toad Lily, Hairy Toad Lily) is a hardy perennial in the family Liliaceae that is native to Japan, growing on shaded rocky cliffs and stream banks. The flowers are wide with six whitish to pale purple tepals that have dark purple spots
A toad: pad
A toad: crapaud
american green toad: small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes
american toad: common toad of America
biggest toad in the puddle: cock of the walk, dominant person, powerful person
cane toad: A large poisonous toad, Bufo marinus, native to Central and South America and widely exported in the 1930s to control sugar cane beetles. Also called marine toad
eastern narrow-mouthed toad: small toad of southeastern United States
eurasian green toad: Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring
european toad: common toad of Europe
fire-bellied toad: toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches on its underside
horned toad: or horned lizard Any of about 14 species of lizards of the genus Phrynosoma, family Iguanidae. They usually have daggerlike head spines (horns) and a flattened oval body with pointed fringe scales along the sides. Species range from about 3 to 5 in. (8 to 13 cm) long. They are found from British Columbia, Can., south to Guatemala and from the U.S. states of Arkansas and Kansas westward, usually in desert or semidesert sandy country. They eat mainly ants. They hide by changing their colour pattern and wriggling sideways into the sand until all but the head is covered. They may defend themselves by inflating the body quickly and (rarely) spurting blood from the eyes
midwife toad: similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians
obstetrical toad: European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch
pacific tree toad: most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America
sea toad: A sculpin
sea toad: A toadfish
sea toad: The angler
south american poison toad: a South American toad
southwestern toad: a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States
surinam toad: A species of toad native of Surinam
surinam toad: a South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back
texas toad: nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest
toads: plural of toad
tree toad: arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
true toad: tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin
western narrow-mouthed toad: small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America
western toad: of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies
yosemite toad: of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders

toad

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tōd

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/ˈtōd/ /ˈtoʊd/

Etymology

[ 'tOd ] (noun.) before 12th century. Old English tāda, a shortening of tādiġe, of unknown origin.

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