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Horned toad   /hɔrnd toʊd/   Listen
Horned toad

noun
1.
Insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America.  Synonyms: horned lizard, horny frog.






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"Horned toad" Quotes from Famous Books



... The ditch is in Idaho more valuable by far than the land, for without it the parched soil is practically worthless, being an area of shimmering sand, where the ash-colored and dust-covered sagebrush breeds the loathsome horned toad, the rough-and-ready rattlesnake, and the slinking, night-hunting coyote, which preys on the lithe-limbed, loping ...
— Trail Tales • James David Gillilan

... feet. Beneath its spreading shade in the south lurks the Gila Monster, terrible in name at any rate, a fearful object to look upon, a remnant of antediluvian times, a huge, clumsy, two-foot lizard. The horned toad is quite as forbidding in appearance, but he is a harmless little thing. Here we are in the rattlesnake's paradise. Nine species are found along the Mexican border; and no wonder. The country seems made for them,—the rocks, cliffs, canyons, pitahayas, Joshuas, and all ...
— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

... resembling tadpoles, but which, as I learned, are intended to represent a small crustacean or the larva of an insect common in the water-pools and streams of the Zuni country; and the somewhat grotesque figures of the horned toad (Phrynosoma). These figures are placed both on the outer and inner surfaces, though the figure of the reptile is generally ...
— Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 • James Stevenson



Words linked to "Horned toad" :   genus Phrynosoma, iguanid, Texas horned lizard, Phrynosoma cornutum, Phrynosoma, iguanid lizard



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