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spadefoot

noun

Etymology

From spade + foot.

  1. inherited from *pṓds✻
  2. inherited from *fōts✻
  3. inherited from *fōt✻
  4. inherited from fōt
  5. inherited from fot
  6. compounded as spadefoot — “spade + foot”

Definitions

  1. Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind…

    Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.

The neighborhood

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