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TRUE TOAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("true toad" is a kind of...):
anuran; batrachian; frog; salientian; toad; toad frog (any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "true toad"):
bufo (any toad of the genus Bufo)
agua; agua toad; Bufo marinus (largest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests)
Bufo bufo; European toad (common toad of Europe)
Bufo calamita; natterjack (common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops)
American toad; Bufo americanus (common toad of America)
Bufo viridis; Eurasian green toad (Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring)
American green toad; Bufo debilis (small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes)
Bufo canorus; Yosemite toad (of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders)
Bufo speciosus; Texas toad (nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest)
Bufo microscaphus; southwestern toad (a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States)
Bufo boreas; western toad (of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies)
Holonyms ("true toad" is a member of...):
Bufonidae; family Bufonidae (true toads)