单词 | true toad |
释义 | true toad (once / 2954828 pages) n WORD FAMILY true toad: true toads USAGE EXAMPLESLater its limbs develop, the hind ones coming first, its tail is absorbed, and it is now a true toad, ready to leave the water. Schmucker, Samuel Christian, The Meaning of Evolution(2010) The skin of the back and the long stiff tail, instead of being warted like the true toad’s upper surface, is set with thorny excrescences. Kingston, William Henry Giles, The Western World—Picturesque Sketc...(2010) n tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin Hypo|Hyper bufo any toad of the genus Bufo Bufo marinus, agua, agua toadlargest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests Bufo bufo, European toadcommon toad of Europe Bufo calamita, natterjackcommon brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops American toad, Bufo americanuscommon toad of America Bufo viridis, Eurasian green toadEurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring American green toad, Bufo debilissmall green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes Bufo canorus, Yosemite toadof high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders Bufo speciosus, Texas toadnocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest Bufo microscaphus, southwestern toada uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States Bufo boreas, western toadof a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
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