0 a small, brown animal, similar to a frog, that has big eyes and long back legs for swimming and jumping:
1 an extremely unpleasant man, especially one who is not very physically attractive:
[ as form of address ] You lying toad!
2 a small animal, similar to a frog, that has dry, brown skin and lives mostly on land
In toads examined at the end of hibernation, fat reserves were negatively correlated with parasite intensity.
The role of the toad's nucleus isthmi in prey-catching behavior.
If pulmonary damage, experienced during this same period, should compromise energetic expenditure and prey capture, then the ability of infected toads to survive hibernation could be prejudiced.
I am very fond of toads—not the human sort, but the other sort.
The toads under the harrow are landlords, who will have their rights denied them without payment of compensation.
The area does not have any fascinating toads, but at the last count it had a colony of 6,000 burnt orchids.
Why is the same attitude not taken to the odious toads who own this company?
Then there are the newts and the toads.
