toad | meaning of toad in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishAnimalstoadtoad /təʊd $ toʊd/ noun [countable]     HBAa small animal that looks like a large frog and lives mostly on landExamples from the Corpustoad• As they obeyed, Mungo could see that the sorcerer's apprentice was a toad, puffed up with fear or pride.• The sound was something like a pond full of croaking toads.• I abandoned the garden, which harboured the non-existent toad.• When the bacteria reproduced, it reproduced the toad genes as well, creating a new type of bacteria.• The toads at the revival meeting.ToadToad    one of the main characters in the children's story The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Toad is a rich, proud character who lives in a big house called Toad Hall and thinks he is very important.Origin toad Old English tade, tadige