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shield-toads

shield-toads is the plural of shield-toad.

Meaning of shield-toad

Noun

shield-toad (plural shield-toads)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) A turtle or tortoise.
    • But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.2010, Hugh Peter McGrath, Michael Comenetz, Valery's Graveyard

Questions about shield-toads

What is shield-toads the plural of?
Shield-toads is the plural of shield-toad.

Words near shield-toads in the dictionary

  1. shield-may
  2. shield-mays
  3. shield-skipper
  4. shield-skippers
  5. shield-toad
  6. shield-toads
  7. shield-wall
  8. shield-walls
  9. shieldable
  10. Shieldaig
  11. shieldback

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