单词 | Surinam toad |
例句 | A back full of eggs isn’t the only weird thing about the Surinam toad. Happy Mother’s Day From the Science Desk 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Thus in the Surinam toad the male spreads the ova on the back of the female, where skin cavities form in which the tadpoles develop. The Truth About Woman The Surinam toad is one of the most curious, though, at the same time, among the most hideous of batrachians. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America But the curious Surinam toad of South America has improved on this arrangement, and lodges each little one in a little pocket in the skin of her back! Chatterbox, 1906 The creature was, I at once guessed, the Surinam toad—Pipa Americana—which I knew was found, not only in Surinam, but in other parts of this region. On the Banks of the Amazon The Surinam toad, represented in No. 8, is also the possessor of one of the strangest nurseries known to science. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. One of the Guiana catfishes, known as Aspredo, very much resembles her countrywoman the Surinam toad in her nursery arrangements. Science in Arcady It is said of the Pipa, or Surinam toad, a hideous, but probably harmless, animal, that very malignant effects are experienced from it when calcined. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back. Lectures on Art |
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