| NOUN | animal | spadefoot toad, spadefoot | a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection / projection on each hind foot |
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| Meaning | A burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection / projection on each hind foot. | |
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| Synonym | spadefoot | |
| Member of | Pelobatidae, family Pelobatidae | The amphibian family of spadefoot toads |
| Narrower | plains spadefoot, Scaphiopus bombifrons | This spadefoot toad lives in plains and hills and river bottoms in areas of low rainfall east of the Rocky Mountains |
| southern spadefoot, Scaphiopus multiplicatus | This spadefoot toad lives in the southwestern United States | |
| western spadefoot, Scaphiopus hammondii | This spadefoot toad live in California | |
| Broader | frog, toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian, salientian | Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping |
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