| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| largest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests |
agua
,
agua toad
,
Bufo marinus
|
| European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch |
Alytes obstetricans
,
midwife toad
,
obstetrical toad
|
| small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes |
American green toad
,
Bufo debilis
|
| common toad of America |
American toad
,
Bufo americanus
|
| frog or toad, relating to |
anuran
,
batrachian
,
batrachoid
,
ranine
,
salientian
|
| toad, concerning a |
anuran
,
batrachian
,
bufoniform
,
salientian
|
| toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches on its underside |
Bombina bombina
,
fire-bellied toad
|
| any toad of the genus Bufo |
bufo
|
| common toad of Europe |
Bufo bufo
,
European toad
|
| common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops |
Bufo calamita
,
natterjack
|
| uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States |
Bufo microscaphus
,
southwestern toad
|
| nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest |
Bufo speciosus
,
Texas toad
|
| Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring |
Bufo viridis
,
Eurasian green toad
|
| form of tree toad |
chameleon tree frog
|
| small toad of southeastern United States |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
,
Gastrophryne carolinensis
|
| small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
Gastrophryne olivacea
,
western narrow-mouthed toad
|
| small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring |
Hyla crucifer
,
spring peeper
|
| South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back |
Pipa americana
,
Pipa pipa
,
Surinam toad
|
| this spadefoot toad lives in plains and hills and river bottoms in areas of low rainfall east of the Rocky Mountains |
plains spadefoot
,
Scaphiopus bombifrons
|
| larval frog or toad |
polliwog
,
pollywog
,
tadpole
|
