| 单词 | natterjack toad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnatterjack toad More fully natterjack toad. A small toad, Bufo calamita, of western Eurasia (now rare in Britain), which has a light yellow stripe down the back and runs in short bursts. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Bufonidae (true toads) > bufo calamita (natterjack) natterjack1769 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 12 This species..is found on Putney Common, and also near Revesby Abby, Lincolnshire, where it is called the Natter Jack. 1831 C. Darwin in Life (1887) I. 187 To Galinghay, to see the wild lily of the valley, and to catch on the heath the rare natter-jack. 1839 T. Bell Brit. Reptiles 116 (heading) Natter-jack toad. 1863 Intellectual Observer Oct. 228 The natterjack is very abundant in South Lancashire in all the ditches in those parts near the coast. 1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) lxi. 417 The Natter-jack Toad is the only other British species. 1913 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Life of Fly i. 23 The Natterjack, sometimes as large as a plate, with a narrow stripe of yellow down his back, makes his appointments here to take his bath. 1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds ix. 131 Another Broadland rarity is the natterjack or running toad, now confined to one or two localities. 1997 Earth Matters Winter 15/1 Southport Dunes include internationally rare habitats such as humid dune slacks and important populations of Natterjack Toad and Sand Lizard. < as lemmas |
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