toad

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To the toad he is entirely indifferent; but I presume he knows that the toad is the most useful animal in the garden.

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  1. noun Any of numerous tailless amphibians chiefly of the family Bufonidae, related to and resembling the frogs but characteristically more terrestrial and having a broader body and rougher, drier skin.
  2. noun The horned lizard.
  3. noun A person regarded as repulsive.

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  • My new vocabulary is telling me that a toad is a froglike creature...' No.1 's face fell. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • At least we'll try; it's the chance of being turned into a spider or a toad, against the wealth and power of the world. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • From dragonlings (combat) to Mechanical squirrels, my toad is the favorite of all of them.
  • Scarcely believable on the face of it - and the face of it is the face of the cane toad, which is scarcely believable in itself - the story is true in every respect. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, —  PoetryFoundation.org
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  1. Middle English tadde, tode, from Old English tādige.

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  1. Early modern English also tode; also Scots tade, taid, taed, ted; from ME, tode, toode, tades, tadde, from Anglo-Saxon tādige, tādie, toad; root unknown. The Danish tudse, Swedish tåssa, toad, are prob. unrelated. Hence, in comp., tadpole, q. v.
 

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