(n.) Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.
Example Sentences:
(1) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(2) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
(3) A study was made of the innervation of the longitudinal muscle of the toad ileum with particular emphasis on the splanchnic innervation by non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic (NANC) nerves.
(4) These results indicate that GE decreases active Na transport in the toad skin.
(5) Fenoterol significantly increased toad skin oxygen consumption and net Na+ movement across the skin due to an increase in Na+ flux from mucosa to serosa.
(6) We attempted to distinguish between these 2 possibilities by studying paired toad bladders during 3 protocols that alter vasopressin-stimulated water flow across the intact tissue without altering aggregate frequency.
(7) In IDD patients the ultrafiltrates were active in the TTC assay and in the toad assay.
(8) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
(9) However, we also demonstrate that published data show the existence of strong nonlinearities in the single-photon responses of toad and perhaps also of locust.
(10) A photoreactive analogue of vasotocin, [1-desamino,4-lysine(azidobenzoyl),8-arginine]vasotocin (4-N3-AVT), has been examined in the isolated toad urinary bladder for biological activity and binding to hormonal receptors.
(11) Earlier studies have shown that a substance(s) released from the egg jelly of the toad Bufo arenarum is required for fertilization.
(12) Commenters on his blog posted numerous fotozhaby – literally, photo-toads, or montages – in pastiche of the sham image.
(13) Schematic eyes, with homogeneous and non homogeneous lenses, were constructed for tadpoles, juvenile toads, and adult toads.
(14) Bidirectional sodium fluxes were measured across toad bladder sacs after eliminating active transport with ouabain.
(15) The properties of hyperpolarization-activated channels were studied in single smooth muscle cells from the stomach of the toad, Bufo marinus, using the patch-clamp technique.
(16) Findings from toad urinary bladder, Necturus gallbladder, and rabbit cortical collecting tubule are reviewed.
(17) The chronotropic and inotropic effects of stimulating the vagus on the hearts of the dog, duck and toad were studied.2.
(18) The inhibition of osmotic stimulated water flow in the isolated toad bladder by 0.1 mM sodium stibogluconate (pentavalent antimony) is described.
(19) Other than snake venoms, only venoms of the toad Bufo calamita and the lizards were hemorrhagic, and only venoms of the social wasps, social bees and harvester ant exhibited strong anticoagulant activity.
(20) By analogy with the comparable glands of the yellow-bellied toad and the grass frog, these are called the toxic, lumpy, mucous, callous, and small glands.
Toady
Definition:
(n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
(n.) A coarse, rustic woman.
(v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) She became a vociferous critic both of the supermarkets, and of the 80s "foodie" culture as satirised in The Official Foodie Handbook by Ann Barr and Paul Levy, a volume she loathed ("To be sure they are skilful enough in the arts of toadying to their public and providing it with a little giggle at itself, but the meaning of satire in the true sense eludes them," she wrote in her review for Tatler ).
(2) It seems futile to sum up the plot, but here goes: The Satanic Verses is constructed around a pair of South Asian Muslims - Gibreel Farishta (meaning the Angel Gabriel), born into poverty as Ismail Najmuddin in Poona "at the empire's fag-end", but who takes up his other name as part of his transformation into a Bollywood star; and Saladin Chamcha (meaning Saladin the Toady), born Salahuddin Chamchawala to a rich and somewhat crass Bombay-based industrialist and his delicate wife.
(3) And if you continue to try to fuck with News International after toadying up to me for so long, then you're in for an even bigger kicking.
(4) A montage of A Question Of Sport clips ensues: first Emlyn Hughes toadying up to Princess Anne, then Matt Dawson forwarding the ass-kissing baton a generation later with her daughter, Zara Phillips.
(5) He toadied to corporations and bankers while depressing the wages of almost everybody else.
(6) Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, accused Shaheed of "toadying to the US and Israel" with a report that he described as unsubstantiated, biased and collated from "anti-Iranian outlets and terrorist groups".
(7) If tonight's match in Doha is an attempt to toady up to Fifa in a bid to secure the rights to stage World Cup 2022, it might be too late.
(8) If the Windsors ever get on their bikes like their Dutch counterparts, some toady like Lord St John of Fawsley will immediately be down on his knees, licking the road clean for them.
(9) The Queen, naturally, is to be asked to sign a reaffirmation of the principles of the great charter – no doubt at Runnymede, where King John was confronted by an eminently less toadying crowd – and there is a plan to get the UN involved to promote the rule of law .