Definition of toad

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Toad (n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid..

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Knot :: Knot (v. i.) To copulate; -- said of toads.
Footlicker :: Footlicker (n.) A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick.
Toadhead :: Toadhead (n.) The golden plover.
Hop :: Hop (v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do..
Unke :: Unke (n.) A European aquatic toad (Bombinator igneus). Its back is dark; its belly is marked with crimson. Called also feuerkrote.
Batrachia :: Batrachia (n. pl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
Frogfish :: Frogfish (n.) An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.
Ramsted :: Ramsted (n.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.
Toady :: Toady (n.) A coarse, rustic woman..
Tapayaxin :: Tapayaxin (n.) A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad.
Toadflax :: Toadflax (n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted..
Toadfish :: Toadfish (n.) The angler.
Toadeater :: Toadeater (n.) A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady..
Sea Toad :: Sea toad () A toadfish.
Bootlick :: Bootlick (n.) A toady.
Toadying :: Toadying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toad.
Anurous :: Anurous (a.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads..
Paddock :: Paddock (n.) A toad or frog.
Flunlyism :: Flunlyism (n.) The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
Ranine :: Ranine (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
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