Spadefoot: alternatives and connections

deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…

A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on…

A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- call…

A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…

To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge.

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrumen…

Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the…

perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice…

A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.

Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former famil…

Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…

A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the…

common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thi…

A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The commo…