Any toad of arboreal habits, esp. those of the family Hylidæ, found chiefly in tropical America: often erroneously called tree-frogs.
1778. J. Carver, Trav. (1794), 253. Among the reptiles of North America there is a species of the toad, termed the tree toad, which is nearly of the same shape as the common sort, but smaller and with longer claws.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! xxi. When the sun went down, tree-toads came out.
