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crapaud

(ˈkræpəʊ; ˈkrɑː-)
n
(Animals) Caribbean a frog or toad
[from French: toad]
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Noun1.crapaud - large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog
anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog - any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
genus Leptodactylus, Leptodactylus - type genus of the Leptodactylidae; in some classifications placed in the family Bufonidae
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Adaptation comportement du blaireau europeen (Meles meles L.) a la predation d'une espece-proie venimeuse, le crapaud commun (Bufo bufo L.).
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Le crapaud bien campe sur la butte qui surplombe la marre, croasse et croasse en tendant l'oreille pour bien s'entendre confabuler et pour mieux savourer ses vocalises portees par le vent au dela des champs.
(12) Tour a tour crapaud, vautour, hyene et cafard--inquietante menagerie pullulant dans plus d'un des romans etudies (13)--les hommes de lettres se trouvent non seulement relegues a un degre inferieur a l'humain dans l'echelle des etres, mais encore ravales au rang des especes les plus grotesques du regne animal suivant l'imagination populaire.
Dominica's national dish is frogs' legs – known as crapaud – hopefully more appetising than it sounds.
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Students also contribute to various in international aid projects, Montreal * Forest Systems & Management (BSc) [c] * Forestry (BSc) [c] Universite du Quebec a Montreal The Environmental uqam.ca Science Institute's forum, numerous public workshops, and the initiatives of the faculty are ways for students to be involved with the community CRAPAUD is a student research group in urban agriculture.