| 单词 | water toad |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater toad water toad n. any of various toads that live in water rather than on land; cf. land-toad n. at land n.1 Compounds 2b(a). ΚΠ 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1068 In the same fashion they [sc. Spiders] enter the lists with land and water Toads [L. cum bufonibus & rubetis], and kill them in single fight. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 106 Of this animal there are several varieties; such as the Water and the Land Toad... The water toad is not so large as the other. 1896 Proc. Zool. Soc. 5 May 595 One of the females of the Surinam Water-Toad..with her back covered with eggs. 1923 Illustr. London News 22 Sept. 526/3 One of these is the Water-Toad (Bufo agua) of Mexico and the Argentine. 2012 Z. Meeran Tanuki Ichiban 82 Once, entering from the deck she had seen a mongoose following the passage of a water toad in the pond. < as lemmas |
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