shield-toad

archaic nonstandard rare

(archaic, rare, nonstandard) A turtle or tortoise.

Japanese Meaning

亀（カメ）

The naturalist carefully examined the ancient shield-toad fossil and identified it as a land tortoise.

博物学者は古代の亀の化石を注意深く調べ、それが陸亀であると同定した。

Sense（1）

(archaic, rare, nonstandard) A turtle or tortoise.

But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.

shield-toads

（ plural ）