shovelnose frog
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[edit]Noun
[edit]shovelnose frog (plural shovelnose frogs)
- Any of a group of moderate-sized frogs in the genus Hemisus and family Hemisotidae, which have a small upturned nose.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 25:
- Shovelnose frogs, fat little things, lumpy-backed and moss-coloured, come together to mate, the male climbing on the back of the female as she digs down into the ground away from the river.