true toad

/tru toʊd/

Other forms: true toads

Definitions of true toad

1. noun

   tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin
   types:

   bufo

   any toad of the genus Bufo

   Bufo marinus, agua, agua toad

   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

   type 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