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SPADEFOOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spadefoot mean?
• SPADEFOOT (noun)
The noun SPADEFOOT has 1 sense:
1. a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot
Familiarity information: SPADEFOOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
spadefoot; spadefoot toad
Hypernyms ("spadefoot" is a kind 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spadefoot"):
Scaphiopus hammondii; western spadefoot (this spadefoot toad live in California)
Scaphiopus multiplicatus; southern spadefoot (this spadefoot toad lives in the southwestern United States)
plains spadefoot; Scaphiopus bombifrons (this spadefoot toad lives in plains and hills and river bottoms in areas of low rainfall east of the Rocky Mountains)
Holonyms ("spadefoot" is a member of...):
family Pelobatidae; Pelobatidae (the amphibian family of spadefoot toads)
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