shovelnose frog

English

a marbled shovelnose frog (Hemisus marmoratus)

Noun

shovelnose frog (plural shovelnose frogs)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• snout-burrower