toado Austral.
(ˈtəʊdəʊ)
[f. toad-fish + -o2.]
A poisonous puffer-fish of the family Tetraodontidæ.
| 1943 G. P. Whitley in Bull. Council Sci. & Industrial Res. (Australia) CLIX. 8 Australia alone has more than 30 different species of Toadoes. 1953 Copeia I. 32/2 The terms ‘tetrodon’, fugu, globefish, toad-fish, toado, and puffer poisoning are synonymous. 1965 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 11 Sept. 2/1 Few fish in the sea..pack such deadly poison as the Toadoes. 1974 J. M. Thomson Fish of Ocean & Shore xv. 162 The common toadfish or toado..has a splotchy brown or green coat. Ibid., The silver-cheeked toadfish or giant toado..attains a metre in length. |