Bufo definition

(Hawaii, slang) Toad, frog.
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Noun

Singular:
bufo
Plural:
bufos

Origin of bufo

  • From Translingual Bufo marinus, the cane toad, from Latin būfo (“toad”).

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Bufo Sentence Examples

  • These forms differ very little from those that live at the present day in the same part of the world, and some of the genera (Discoglossus, Bufo, Oxyglossus, Rana) are even identical.

  • Many of the Ecaudata have remnants of oviducts, or Miillerian ducts, most developed in Bufo, which genus is also remarkable as possessing a problematic organ, Bidder's organ, situated between the testis and the adipose or fat-bodies that surmount it.

  • Although there is much similarity between the Apoda of Africa and of South America, one genus being even common to both parts of the world, the frogs are extremely different, apart from the numerous representatives of the widely distributed genus Bufo.

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