Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of anurous amphibians, or tailless batrachians, of the family Discoglossidœ, sometimes made the type of a family Alytidœ. A. obstetricans is the nurse-frog or accoucheur-toad of Europe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of amphibians comprising the midwife toads.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun midwife toads
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