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  • noun Plural form of toadlet.

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Examples

  • One distinctive endemic species is the Mount Nimba toad (Nimbaphrynoides occidentalis, CR), which gives birth to fully developed toadlets after a gestation period of nine months.

    Biological diversity in the Guinean forests of West Africa 2008

  • "And a combination of the two weapons will work even better, because the alarm chemical makes toads transform from tadpoles into toadlets at a smaller size, and so makes them even more vulnerable to the parasite."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Adding the alarm chemical to ponds can kill many toad tadpoles without affecting frog tadpoles, and can 'miniaturize' the emerging toadlets," the researchers wrote on the website.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Church, are so many toadlets, one after another detaching themselves from their parent brute.

    Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Mr. Pitt's window tax, with its pretty little additionals sprouting out from it like young toadlets on the back of a Surinam toad, would certainly improve the appearance of the Hamburg houses, which have a slight summer look, not in keeping with their size, incongruous with the climate, and precluding that feeling of retirement and self - content, which one wishes to associate with a house in a noisy city.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • This way, more toadlets will be available to help cross, which means more conservation, and more fun.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

  • I figured more around 400 people here ready to pick up some toadlets.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

  • I can't wait to get out there and snag some fun photos of little toadlets being captured and taken across the highway.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

  • Next article Millions of toadlets heading for Washington woods

    NWCN - Top Stories 2010

  • As soon as everyone's hands were washed and people split into groups to go out and find their toadlets, there were plenty of happy smiles crawling into the woods to find these little guys.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

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