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noun

Crapaud n. (Written also crapawd, crapald, crepaud, etc)

A toad. (Obs.)

As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

Large toothed frog of South and Central America (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) resembling the bullfrog.

Synonyms: South American bullfrog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... John Bull is an Englishman, Cousin Michael a German, Colin Tampon a Swiss, Brother Jonathan a North American, etc. Called Crapaud from the device of the ancient kings of France, "three toads erect saltant." Nostradamus, in the sixteenth century, called the French crapauds in ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... toad, first discovered by P. Demours in 1741, on the border of a small pond in the Jardin des Plantes, in the very act of parturition which has rendered it famous, and described as Petit crapaud male accoucheur de sa femelle. Alytes obstetricans is of special interest as the first known example of paternal solicitude in Batrachians, and although many no less wonderful cases of nursing instinct have since been revealed to us, it remains ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia