单词 | spade-foot |
释义 | > as lemmasspade-foot spade-foot n. (a) the foot used in pressing a spade into the ground; (b) an enlargement on a chair-leg, etc., resembling a spade; (c) a toad having a foot specially adapted for digging; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Anomocoela > member of family Pelobatidae (spade-foot) spade-foot1891 pelobatid1895 parsley frog1897 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > foot claw-foot1862 spade-foot1891 Spanish foot1902 bun foot1904 pad foot1905 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [noun] > right or left stirrup-foot1753 spade-foot1891 1891 D. Wilson Right Hand 170 I believe every boy will hop on his spade foot. 1897 K. W. Clouston Chippendale Period Eng. Furnit. 154 By using the ‘spade foot’, as the square excrescence at the thin end of the leg is called. 1899 Proc. Zool. Soc. 790 On the American Spade-foot (Scaphiopus solitarius). 1901 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VIII. 163 Pelobates cultripes, this is the Spade-foot of the whole of Spain and Portugal and of the southern and western parts of France. 1901 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VIII. 164 Pelobates cultripes, Spade-foot Toad. < as lemmas |
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