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Midwife toad is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MIDWIFE TOAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

midwife toad

Midwife toad

Midwife toads are a genus of frogs in the Alytidae family, and are found in most of Europe and northwestern Africa. Characteristic of these toad-like frogs is their parental care: the males carry a string of fertilised eggs on their back, hence the name "midwife". The female expels a strand of eggs, which the male fertilizes externally. He then wraps them around his legs to protect them from predators in the water. When they are ready to hatch, the male wades into shallow water, where he allows the tadpoles to leap out of their eggs. Five separate species of midwife toad are found across western Europe, northern Africa, and Majorca. Midwife toads can be found in the snows of the Pyrenees, living at heights of 5,000–6,500 feet in areas such as the Néouvielle massif. Unlike the thin tongue of many amphibians, the midwife's tongue is round and flattened; its former family name, Discoglossidae, means "round tongue". In parts of France midwife toads live in sand dunes by the sea. They share this habitat with natterjack toads.

Definition of midwife toad in the English dictionary

The definition of midwife toad in the dictionary is a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE MIDWIFE TOAD

cane toad
common toad
European toad
giant toad
hoptoad
horned toad
marine toad
natterjack toad
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Translation of «midwife toad» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

接生婆蟾蜍
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sapo partero
570 millions of speakers

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midwife toad
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दाई मेंढक
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العلجوم القابلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

акушерка жаба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

parteira sapo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিডওয়াইফ টাউড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crapaud accoucheur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Toad bidan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Geburtshelferkröte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

助産師のヒキガエル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

산파 두꺼비
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bidhang kodhok
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nữ hộ sinh cóc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மருத்துவச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिडवाफेड मेंढी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ebe doğranmalığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ostetrica rospo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

położnej ropucha
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

акушерка жаба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

moașă broască
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

μαία βάτραχος
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Vroedmeesterpad
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

barnmorska padda
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

jordmor padde
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDWIFE TOAD»

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Articles on Painted Frogs, Including: Midwife Toad, Iberian ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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New Scientist
Few. however, can have been as tragic as the case of the midwife toad {Alytes obstetricians) and its reverberations in the 1920s. The centre piece of the act is the eponymous toad, unique among the frogs and toads bcause it has lost the horny ...
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New Scientist
Letters Midwife toad postscript Sir, — Professor J. Maynard Smith (Review, 30 December, p 281) describes Arthur Koestler as being "as prejudiced as the most involved scientific investigator". Koestler's partiality, as Professor Smith indicates,  ...
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New Scientist
The case of the midwife toad by Arthur Koestler Hutchinson, pp 188, £2 Arthur Koestler is the ideal scientific biographer. He knows that scientific history is not a dull affair of piling fact on fact or mathematical inference on mathematical inference ...
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Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
The midwife toad, A. obstetricans, is representative of the group. It can be found in eight European countries, from sea level on the coast of the Iberian Peninsula to seventy-five hundred feet high in the Pyrenees Mountains. During the breeding  ...
John L. Behler, Deborah A. Behler, 2008
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Frogs and Toads: Your Happy Healthy Pet
The olive midwife toad (Alytes obstetricians) and the other two members of this genus, the brown midwife toad (Alytes cisternasii) and the Majorca midwife toad ( Alytes muletensis), are best known for the active role the father plays in caring for  ...
Steve Grenard, 2007
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The Complete Garden Wildlife Book
Midwife Toad Alytes obstetricans Length: no more than c.5cm The Midwife Toad is a small, plump amphibian with prominent eyes. lts range was formerly from the Netherlands south-west to Spain, but it has been introduced to Britain, where it ...
Mark Golley, 2007
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The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories ...
The eventual exposure of an apparent fraud in Kammerer's midwife toad experiments was the last straw as far as most experimentalists were concerned. Outside the ranks of the experimental biologists, however, the collapse of Lamarckism ...
Peter J. Bowler, 1992
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Endangered: Life in the Amphibian World
Life in the Amphibian World Madhu Singh Sirohi. midwife toad, What I look like I am a small toad with a flattened body so I can y '1 .- , enter burrows and crevices easily, which is where 1 I live. I have large eyes, long legs, and smooth / skin.
Madhu Singh Sirohi, 2008
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Eyewitness to Science
Eager to defend the older theory (he had written a book about it called The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics), Kammerer devised a simple experiment with a species of frog known as the 'midwife toad.' Most toads mate in water. To keep ...
John Carey, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDWIFE TOAD»

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The Animal Kingdom's Hardest Working Dads
The eggs of many frogs and toads are laid in a long string, and males of one species, the midwife toad, wrap the strings of eggs around their ... «Care2.com, Jun 15»
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Miranda Dyson
... students investigating the reproductive behaviour of the midwife toad, Alytes muletensis, microhabitat requirements of the great crested newt, ... «The Conversation UK, Jun 15»
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Fluty calls from behind the wheelie bins
Then a particularly clear call is emitted from a paved driveway, and there it is, small enough to fit in a matchbox, a mottled-grey midwife toad. «The Guardian, May 15»
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Sciencespeak: Lazarus taxon
A genus of ant first found in amber, a midwife toad, and a whole group of marine invertebrates called monoplacophorans fit the bill, too, though ... «National Geographic, Feb 15»
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Why would a scientist fiddle their results?
Then there was the "Case of the Midwife Toad". Midwife toads are interesting creatures that, despite being amphibians, do not breed in water. «Stuff.co.nz, Nov 14»
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Deadly virus is killing frogs throughout Spain
This is a type of ranavirus (RV) called common midwife toad virus (CMTV). The common midwife toad virus (CMTV) was first isolated on the ... «DigitalJournal.com, Oct 14»
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Virus Decimating Spanish Amphibians
The common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) is suffering major losses to the virus in Spain's Picos de Europa National Park.WIKIMEDIA ... «Scientist, Oct 14»
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New Virus Killing Off Amphibians, Jumping Between Species …
"In the Picos de Europa National Park, we've seen major population collapses in three species: the common midwife toad, the common toad ... «Headlines & Global News, Oct 14»
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Deadly virus striking European amphibians
In 2007, the pathogen was identified and named the common midwife toad virus (CMTV), a new kind of RV. RVs have surfaced on every ... «Science AAAS, Oct 14»
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Celebrate ARKive's Highlights
Mallorcan midwife toad photo. Monty the Mallorcan midwife toad is a sensitive guy who's great with kids and is ready to deliver a good time! «ARKive, May 14»

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