spadefoot

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun spadefoot has 1 sense

spadefoot(n = noun.animal) spadefoot toad - a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot; Array

is a kind of anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog

is a member of family pelobatidae, pelobatidae

has particulars: scaphiopus hammondii, western spadefoot, scaphiopus multiplicatus, southern spadefoot, plains spadefoot, scaphiopus bombifrons

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CIDE DICTIONARY

spadefoot, n.

Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. Scaphiopus Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad. [1913 Webster]

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