Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
tadpole .
Etymologies
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tadpole + -like
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Examples
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That night they dropped anchor at the mouth of a sluggish stream whose warm waters swarmed with millions of tiny tadpolelike organisms -- minute human spawn starting on their precarious journey from some inland pool toward "the beginning" -- a journey which one in millions, perhaps, might survive to complete.
Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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