Definition of "spadefoot" []

• Any of several burrowing toads, of the genus Caphiopus, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs. (noun)

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• "She is currently working on an undergraduate research project where she is using mate choice tests to determine call rate preferences in female spadefoot toads."
• "Mr. GASCON: There are a couple of other species of frogs that are in a particular group of animals that had been perhaps the most threatened by all of these different impacts that we've had on the environment: the spadefoot toads."
• "The Sonoran Desert toad, desert spadefoot, northern casque-headed treefrog and others survive in the desert because of their abilities to excavate burrows as much as three feet deep where they spend nine or ten months at a time."