TOAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toad mean? 

• TOAD (noun)
  The noun TOAD has 1 sense:

1. any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

  Familiarity information: TOAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

anuran; batrachian; frog; salientian; toad; toad frog

Hypernyms ("toad" is a kind of...):

amphibian (cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "toad"):

Alytes obstetricans; midwife toad; obstetrical toad (European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch)

South American poison toad (a South American toad)

tongueless frog (almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America)

sheep frog (mostly of Central America)

eastern narrow-mouthed toad; Gastrophryne carolinensis (small toad of southeastern United States)

Gastrophryne olivacea; western narrow-mouthed toad (small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America)

tree-frog; tree frog; tree toad (arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America)

spadefoot; spadefoot toad (a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot)

Bombina bombina; fire-bellied toad (toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches mixed with black on its underside)

Alytes cisternasi; midwife toad (similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians)

ranid; true frog (insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs)

true toad (tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin)

Liopelma hamiltoni (primitive New Zealand frog with four unwebbed toes on forefeet and five on hind feet)

Ascaphus trui; bell toad; ribbed toad; tailed frog; tailed toad (western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ)

tree-frog; tree frog (any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes)

crapaud; Leptodactylus pentadactylus; South American bullfrog (large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog)

barking frog; Hylactophryne augusti; robber frog (of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark)

robber frog (small terrestrial frog of tropical America)

leptodactylid; leptodactylid frog (toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal)

 Context examples 

“What hath the old toad under his arm?” cried one of the others.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bufadienolide toxin originally isolated from the venom of the Chinese toad Bufo gargarizans; it is also one of the glycosides in the traditional Chinese medicine ChanSu, with potential cardiotonic activity.

(Bufogenin, NCI Thesaurus)

A bufadienolide compound extracted from the dried venom secreted by the parotid glands of toads and one of the glycosides in the traditional Chinese medicine ChanSu, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Cinobufagin, NCI Thesaurus)

A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) containing a water soluble Bufo toad skin extract that includes the cardiac glycosides bufalin, cinobufagin and resibufogenin with potential antineoplastic and antiangiogenic activities.

(HuaChanSu, NCI Thesaurus)

There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Yes," responded Abbot; "if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For one moment I had a vision of a horrible mask like a giant toad's, of a warty, leprous skin, and of a loose mouth all beslobbered with fresh blood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An amphibian in the order Anura, which includes the toads.

(Frog, NCI Thesaurus)

A tetradecapeptide originally obtained from the skins of toads Bombina bombina and B. variegata.

(Bombesin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A taxonomic class of vertebrates that include frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and gymnophiona.

(Amphibia, NCI Thesaurus)