common toad

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Noun

common toad (plural common toads)

  1. A toad of species Bufo bufo, principally of Europe.
    • 1946 April 12, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “[“I Write as I Please”] Some Thoughts on the Common Toad”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and Warburg, published 1950, →OCLC, page 202:
      Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried since the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest suitable patch of water.

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