Definition of Pelobatidae

1. Noun. The amphibian family of spadefoot toads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelobatidae

Pell's equation
Pella
Pellaea
Pellaea andromedifolia
Pellaea atropurpurea
Pellaea mucronata
Pellaea ornithopus
Pellaea rotundifolia
Pellegrini's disease
Pellegrini-Stieda disease
Pellicularia
Pellicularia filamentosa
Pellicularia koleroga
Pellizzi's syndrome
Pellow
Pelobatidae
Peloponnese
Peloponnesian
Peloponnesian Peninsula
Peloponnesian War
Peloponnesians
Peloponnesus
Pelops
Peltandra
Peltandra virginica
Peltier
Peltier cooling
Peltier effect
Peltiphyllum
Peltiphyllum peltatum

Literary usage of Pelobatidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"India, the Malay islands, and Papuasia with Melanesia possess pelobatidae ... which we may select as of leading importance, eg Apoda or pelobatidae, ..."

2. Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an by Nelson Annandale, Herbert C. Robinson (1903)
"It is worthy of note, however, that while the pelobatidae produce other instances of growths of a similar nature, these growths are merely characteristic of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... the region agrees with Ethiopia in possessing representatives of the limbless Apoda, but differs in the presence of frogs of the family pelobatidae, ..."

4. Archives de biologie (1880)
"Sous ce rapport, les pelobatidae de Lataste (3) établiraient une transition entre les autres Anoures et les ..."

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