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‖ pipa|pɪˈpɑː, ˈpaɪpə|
Also 8–9 pipal, (8 piwal).
[a. Surinam Negro pipál masc., pipá fem. Prob. a native African name, the Indian (Carib) name being curucú. Cf.
1734Seba Thes. Rer. Nat. I. 121 Les Surinamois..apellent pipa les femelles de ces animaux et les mâles pipal.]
The Surinam toad (noted for its peculiar manner of hatching its young: see quot. 1838); hence in Zool. the name of the genus of tailless batrachians of which this is the only species.
α1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. (1730) II. xxii. §9 An American Animal, called the Pipal, like a Toad, which produces its young ones out of its Back. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 280 A species of toads called piwal, or pipal, the female of which deposits her eggs in valvulæ or little cells on the back of the male, so that when the young are hatched they seem to grow out of the body of the male. Others suppose that to be the female that seems to produce the young. 1802Eng. Encycl. VIII. 730/1 The pipal, or Surinam toad, is more ugly than even the common one.
β1769E. Bancroft Guiana 148 The pipa is a large venomous toad peculiar to Guiana. 1838Penny Cycl. X. 493/1 The male Pipa, or Surinam toad, as soon as the eggs are laid, places them on the back of the female, and fecundates them... The skin of her back..forms cellules, in which the eggs are hatched, and where the young pass their tadpole state. 1894Mivart Types Anim. Life 113 Like the Pipa toad it brings forth its young in the adult condition. |