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Spadefoot Toad

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Noun

1. spadefoot, spadefoot toad

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spadefoot Toad

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any of several toads (family Pelobatidae) with a hornlike projection on the hind foot that is used in digging burrows

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spadefoot Toad

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n.
Any of various burrowing anuran amphibians of the families Pelobatidae, of Eurasia and northern Africa, and Scaphiopodidae, of North America, having a horny projection on the side of the hind foot that is used for digging. Also called spadefoot.

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