toad
noun
any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit.
toadlike
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a word derived from
toad.
Example Sentences
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Professor Oliver Farrington, also of the Field Museum, found fossilized bones of a fantastic toadlike creature, probably the extinct megatherium, in the state of Bahia, Brazil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only Ed Barrow, who later built up the New York Yankees, stuck around to watch popeyed as the fleet-footed Wagner covered ground in tremendous toadlike leaps, smothered the ball in his huge hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the deficit, which sits toadlike on our national aspirations.
From Time Magazine Archive
One fairy used a golden lash to send a toadlike monstrosity crashing through the wall.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
He wore a battered bowler hat, pulled down low over his huge toadlike eyes, and he licked his wide lips with a tongue as thick as my arm.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
