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SPADEFOOT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

spadefoot; spadefoot toad

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("spadefoot" is a kind of...):

anuran; batrachian; frog; salientian; toad; toad frog (any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spadefoot"):

Scaphiopus hammondii; western spadefoot (this spadefoot toad live in California)

Scaphiopus multiplicatus; southern spadefoot (this spadefoot toad lives in the southwestern United States)

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)

Holonyms ("spadefoot" is a member of...):

family Pelobatidae; Pelobatidae (the amphibian family of spadefoot toads)

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