tadpole

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Thus, the tadpole is the larva of the frog.

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  1. noun The limbless aquatic larva of a frog or toad, having gills and a long flat tail. As the tadpole approaches the adult stage, legs and lungs develop, and the tail gradually disappears. Also called polliwog.

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  • She lifted it by the curled tail, like a tadpole, and laid it on his palm. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • Cell divisions eventually arrested, but some of the pseudo-fertilized eggs got as far as the tadpole stage. —  Pharyngula
  • The pools support many kinds of life, such as the tadpole shrimp. —  Home
  • These pools can be filled with creatures, such as the tadpole shrimp or the fairy shrimp. —  Home
  • "Some of these things are the tail of a tadpole, they are remnant of another piece of evolution, they will be gone," she said. —  PageOneQ.com Latest
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  1. Middle English taddepol : tadde, tode, toad; see toad + pol, head; see poll.

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  1. from Middle English tadpolle, taddepol, from tadde, a form, with shortened vowel, of tade, toad, + polle, head, poll: see toad and poll. Cf. English dial. pollhead (Scots powhead), polliwog, polliwig, etc., a tadpole.
 

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