Sentence examples for tree toad from inspiring English sources

Tree frog, also spelled treefrog, also called tree toad, any typically arboreal frog belonging to one of several families of the order Anura.

" 'The tree toad is a chef d'oeuvre for the highest,' " Emma said, after about thirty seconds.

Worst of all, he looks, he tells us, "like a tree toad who was changed into a boy but not completely".

The use of the female South African claw-toed tree toad, Xenopus laevis, is based on the discovery that this animal will ovulate and extrude visible eggs within a few hours after it has received an injection of a few millilitres of urine from a pregnant woman.

Just tree toads singing, as this old roadside attraction sets a new course in education and conservation.

His simple descriptions of rural life — "the monotonous croaking of the tree toads," "the delicate scent of the invisible wheat flowers" — capture a lost way of life.

The common toad (Bufo bufo) has golden irises and horizontal slit-like pupils, the red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) has vertical slit pupils, the poison dart frog has dark irises, the fire-bellied toad (Bombina spp).

Tadpoles and frogs of the Green and Golden Bell frog (Litoria aurea), Peron's tree frog (Litoria peronii), Striped Marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii) and the Cane toad (Bufo marinus, syn.

The Pacific tree frog lives in large numbers on the rocks, while tadpoles of the rarer western toad can be seen between March and May.

For instance, Arnold and Wassersug [ 8] showed across a large geographic range (Mexico to Washington state) that garter snakes, Thamnophis spp., were more likely to have consumed anuran metamorphs (tree frogs and toads) than either tadpoles or adults.

At nights, he can hear the two-toned calls of tree frogs and toads.