TRUE TOAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does true toad mean? 

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

1. tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUE TOAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("true toad" 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 "true toad"):

bufo (any toad of the genus Bufo)

agua; agua toad; Bufo marinus (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)

Holonyms ("true toad" is a member of...):

Bufonidae; family Bufonidae (true toads)