I named a stuffed frog Gripoix, probably because it sounded somehow a bit like crapaud, the French word for toad, but more elegant.
English Bay, Bay Jacquin, Cyprien Bay, Skipjack Bay and Bay Crapaud have merged like soap bubbles into a single amorphous body of water.
All that remained was to select a chair on the upper deck, sit back and watch the moon rise from behind Le Crapaud (the Toad) and cast its silvery light on La Limace (the Slug).
Her family name was derived from crapaud, the French for toad, which had been the name bestowed by Cape Cod natives on a French ancestor of hers who washed up there in 1680.
The large frog known as crapaud or mountain chicken (Leptodactylus fallax), one of four amphibian species on the island, was long an emblematic part of Dominica's fauna (and a national dish), but it has become highly endangered because of a fungal disease.
The skin of a poulet crapaudine – named because its spatchcocked outline resembles a crapaud, a toad – shatters like mica; the flesh underneath, basted for hours by the birds dripping on to it from above, is pillowy but springy, imbued to the bone with pepper and thyme.
In Trinidadian English, they are commonly called crapaud, the French word for toad.
Susan Harvey, the owner of Harvey's General Store in Crapaud, PEI, suspects that it's someone trying to "hurt the potato farmers".
Transposon sequence counting was restricted to the most frequent elements, the crapaud and discoglosse elements (Espagne et al. 2008).
