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Surinam toad   Listen
proper noun
Surinam toad  n.  (Zool.) A species of toad native of Surinam. See Pipa.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Surinam toad" Quotes from Famous Books



... mothers too may be found among fish, though far from frequently. One of the Guiana catfishes, known as Aspredo, very much resembles her countrywoman the Surinam toad in her nursery arrangements. Of course you know the Surinam toad—whom not to know argues yourself unknown—that curious creature that carries her eggs in little pits on her back, where the young hatch out and pass through their tadpole stage in a slimy fluid, emerging ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Surinam toad" :   Pipa pipa, Pipa americana, tongueless frog



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