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Definition of Toadlike
1. resembling a toad [adj] - See also: toad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toadlike
Literary usage of Toadlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1901)
"Of the few who survived there resulted a curious form of dwarfs, with short legs,
big joints, and the toadlike and repulsive facial expression described. ..."
2. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"The pale and yellowish face is swollen, and the toadlike eyes peer through a mere
slit between the puffy lids (Fig. 37, page 172). The nose is flat, ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"... and the bird accompanies his movements by more or less appropriate notes:
scolding cacks, clinking, metallic rattles, musical trills, tree-toadlike ..."
4. World-power and Evolution by Ellsworth. Huntington (1919)
"This animal is a small toadlike amphibian about two inches long, with a gray
color, plump form and warty skin. It is remarkable as the only European ..."
5. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Out of the bowels of the earth crawled a monster—a quivering, toadlike thing,
glistening gray in the half light—an unearthed mammoth—a thousand years old, ..."
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