agua

noun

ˈä-gwə

variants or agua toad

plural -s

: cane toad

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from New Latin (in Bufo agua, earlier specific name), short for Aguaquaquan, of unknown origin

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

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