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common toads

common toads is the plural of common toad.

Meaning of common toad

Noun

common toad (plural common toads)

  1. A toad of species Bufo bufo, principally of Europe.
    • Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried since the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest...1946 April 12, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “[“I Write as I Please”] Some Thoughts on the Common Toad”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and Warburg...

Questions about common toads

What is common toads the plural of?
Common toads is the plural of common toad.

Words near common toads in the dictionary

  1. common thresher
  2. common threshers
  3. common time
  4. common toad
  5. common toadflax
  6. common toads
  7. common torpedo
  8. common torpedoes
  9. common touch
  10. common touches
  11. common tree snake

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