shield-toad

== English == === Alternative forms === shieldtoad, shield toad, shelt-toad === Etymology === From shield +‎ toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Dutch schildpad (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), German Schildkröte (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Swedish sköldpadda (“tortoise”), Icelandic sjaldbaka (“turtle”, literally “shield-back”). === Noun === shield-toad (plural shield-toads) (very rare, puristic, otherwise nonstandard) A turtle or tortoise. For quotations using this term, see Citations:shield-toad.