Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very common European toad, Bufo calamita, belonging to the family Bufonidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A European toad (
Bufo calamita ), having a yellow line along its back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
toad of species Bufo calamita (or Epidalea calamita), known for its runninglizard -likegait and very loudmating call.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops
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Examples
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Thousands of acres of old quarries could be turned into nature reserves to support wildlife such as natterjack toads, otters and nightingales, campaigners claim.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Thousands of acres of old quarries could be turned into nature reserves to support wildlife such as natterjack toads, otters and nightingales, campaigners claim.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Toads in the UK need all the help they can to survive and breed, and especially the threatened natterjack toad.
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I part the surface with the tiniest ripple, keeping my fore feet close packed to my sides, and swim with hind legs only, below the surface, neatly as a natterjack.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English
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I looked for the natterjack at eve, but did not find him.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Thursley children like to catch a natterjack to sell.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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This he found out later; but recriminations were useless; besides which the rage for secret alphabets soon died out and was replaced by a rage for aquariums, newts, and natterjack toads.
Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909
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Mark Avery, RSPB conservation director, said: ''Whoever owns our forests, it is vital that areas of lowland heathland which are planted with conifers are restored to benefit species like sand lizards, Dartford warblers, nightjars and natterjack toads.''
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Mark Avery, RSPB conservation director, said: ''Whoever owns our forests, it is vital that areas of lowland heathland which are planted with conifers are restored to benefit species like sand lizards, Dartford warblers, nightjars and natterjack toads.''
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Mark Avery, RSPB conservation director, said: ''Whoever owns our forests, it is vital that areas of lowland heathland which are planted with conifers are restored to benefit species like sand lizards, Dartford warblers, nightjars and natterjack toads.''
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
chained_bear commented on the word natterjack
"Sometimes he went driving with Diana but ... her concentration on speed distressed him. Natterjacks were common in no part of the world—and now on one drive he had been swept past four."
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 48
March 19, 2008