A frog with a flattened body and claws on the hind toes.
Xenopus and other genera, family Pipidae: several species. See also Xenopus
Example sentencesExamples
- The antidote to this killer may lie with the clawed toad and a global vaccination programme is one possible long-term prospect.
- African clawed toads have miraculous regenerative properties in their skin.
- African clawed toads catch their prey by waiting on the bottom of the waterway for something to swim near them.
- These tumors were transmitted to unaffected clawed toads by injection of cell-free extract from the tumors, suggesting a viral etiology.
- Now we focus on the molecular mechanisms involved in the formation of the forebrain pattern using African clawed toads and chicks.