Southwestern Toad (Noun)
Meaning
A uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The southwestern toad inhabits semiarid regions near streams and washes in the southwestern United States.
- Experts caution that habitat destruction threatens populations of the southwestern toad and other amphibians.
- Field researchers carefully collected data on southwestern toad specimens in various areas of their range.
- Locals reported a decline in the sightings of the southwestern toad over the past two decades.
- In dry areas of the southwestern US, southwestern toad individuals aggregated near water sources.