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1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. 395 It is of the horned frogs, with concealed tympanum, that Gravenhorst has made his genus Stombus, but they have teeth like the others, and should not be approximated to the toads.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xliv. 78 We picked up..a number of the horned frogs... Remarkable specimens with the horns of half and three-fourths of an inch in length, and very sharp at the points.

1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. 156 The cameleon is the ‘horned frog’ of the prairies of America.

1902 P. Fountain Great Mountains & Forests S. Amer. xi. 290 In all outward aspects they resemble toads... They are very revolting-looking creatures, and are mostly of the species known as South American horned frogs. The common horned frog of Brazil is among them.

1962 H. R. Smyth Amphibians & their Ways xviii. 225 The Horned Frog possesses sharp teeth on his upper jaws and sharp bony processes on the lower jaw; what is more, he does not hesitate to use those teeth.

1806 Massachusetts Spy 16 July A venerable Philosopher [sc. Thomas Jefferson] sitting in the middle of an immense Map, marked with vast prairies, huge rivers, and mountains of salt: surrounded by piles of Mammoth's bones, stuffed squirrel skins, and horned toads.

1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 706/1 I put my horned toad in his cage out in the sun.

1901 H. Gadow in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VIII. vi. 218 These ‘horned toads’ make a squeaking noise when teazed.

1914 E. G. Boulenger Reptiles & Batrachians iv. 70 The genus Phrynosoma, the Horned Toads, as these small, much flattened lizards are often called, inhabit the Southern United States and Mexico.

1956 C. H. Pope Reptile World 282 The grotesqueness of horned toads makes their bluffing antics ludicrous in the extreme.

1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest vii. 134 ‘Horned toads..three beauties.’.. The largest..was about the circumference of a saucer, and three-quarters of his bulk seemed to consist of head.