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Webster 1913 Edition

Spadefoot

Spade′footˊ

(spād′foŏtˊ)

,

Noun.

(Zool.)

Any species of burrowing toads of the genus

Scaphiopus

, esp.

Scaphiopus Holbrookii

, of the Eastern United States; – called also

spade toad

.