frog
toad
toad frog
anuran
batrachian
salientian | any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping, semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
tailed frog
bell toad
ribbed toad
tailed toad
Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
| true toad | tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin |
agua
agua toad
Bufo marinus | largest known toad species, native to Central America, valuable destroyer of insect pests |
European toad
Bufo bufo | common toad of Europe |
American toad
Bufo americanus | common toad of America |
Eurasian green toad
Bufo viridis | Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring |
American green toad
Bufo debilis | small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes |
Yosemite toad
Bufo canorus | of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders |
Texas toad
Bufo speciosus | nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest |
southwestern toad
Bufo microscaphus | a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States |
western toad
Bufo boreas | of a great variety of habitats from southern Alaska to Baja California west of the Rockies |
obstetrical toad
midwife toad Alytes obstetricans | European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch |
| midwife toad Alytes cisternasi | similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians |
fire-bellied toad
Bombina bombina | toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches mixed with black on its underside |
spadefoot
spadefoot toad | a burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot |
tree toad
tree frog tree-frog | arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe, of southeast Asia and Australia and America |
Pacific tree toad
Hyla regilla | the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America |
western narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne olivacea | small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne carolinensis | small toad of southeastern United States |
Surinam toad
Pipa pipa
Pipa americana | a South American toad, incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back |
| South American poison toad | a South American toad |
horned lizard
horned toad horny frog | insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body, of western North America |
| air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
| Black Hole of Calcutta | a dungeon ( feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula, the next morning only were still alive |
bore
bore-hole
drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
| ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
| finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
| finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
foxhole
fox hole | a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire |
| funk hole | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
glory hole
lazaretto | a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship |
| hole | an opening deliberately made in or through something |
| hole golf hole | one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course, he played holes |
| hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
| lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds |
| mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
| nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
posthole
post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger
post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
| shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive |
| smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
vent
venthole
vent-hole
blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
| toad-in-the-hole | sausage baked in batter |
| hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
watering place
watering hole
spa | a health resort near a spring or at the seaside |
| black hole | a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star, extremely high gravitational field |