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Meanings of polliwog in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tadpole"
Examples for "tadpole"
1
I have seen one feeding one a younger tadpole in early summer.
2
Given that, you might think tadpole shrimps have evolution all figured out.
3
When the young newt is hatched, it is very like a tadpole.
4
In some that were not broken there seemed to be tadpole-like thing.
5
As he looked, the tadpole rushed at the side of its domicile.
1
I don't believe there is such a creature as the fur-bearing pollywog.
2
He wondered if those pollywog children of Old Mr. Toad would be much changed.
3
I'm hungry enough to eat even a fur-bearing pollywog, if there's one around here.
4
Peter looked, and sure enough there was a pollywog with a pair of legs sprouting out.
5
Even the fur-bearing pollywog may reside there.
Usage of polliwog in English
1
One white boy called me a polliwog, and I thought a wog must be something bad.
2
The tadpole, or polliwog, becomes a frog.
3
The result was one of those quick India-rubber scuffles fearful to behold but delightful to human nature in its polliwog state.
4
In those early days, it had been only a faint polliwog of mist, moving slowly through the constellation of Eridanus, just south of the Equator.
5
He talked about this symbol, like two polliwogs, one black, one white.
6
They were a long distance from the water, and had evidently been hatched on the land, and had never been polliwogs.
7
"Couldn't you transform 'em into polliwogs?"
Frequent collocations
Polliwog through the time