shield-toad

Meaning

Noun

A turtle or tortoise.

Origin

From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod ("tortoise"), Dutch schildpad ("tortoise"), German Schildkröte ("tortoise"), Swedish sköldpadda ("tortoise"), Icelandic sjaldbaka ("turtle").

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