southwestern toad

1. 1.

   a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States

   SynonymsBufo microscaphus

   Broadertrue toad

Questions about southwestern toad

What does southwestern toad mean?

southwestern toad means "a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States".

What is another word for southwestern toad?

Close synonyms include Bufo microscaphus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is southwestern toad a common word?

southwestern toad is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.