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Meanings of pollywog 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
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.
Usage of pollywog in English
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.
6
He caught a pollywog for bait, with which he waded to a deep, cool place under a shady bank.
7
I've swallowed a pollywog.
8
For Professor Thomas Tapper, who told me about the fur-bearing pollywog of the South Polar seas, I have the warmest respect.
9
I wanted to take off my clothes and rush into the pond, and swim like a fish, or wriggle like a pollywog.
10
None of us was supposed to know about Mayor Stone and Pollywog.
11
Pollywog took the longest of anybody, and you could never tell why.
12
Some blind folks thought it must be a million early pollywogs splashing.
13
I confined my attention to pollywogs, crabs, and things of that ilk.
14
Are those great big fat pollywogs Grandfather Frog's children, or Old Mr.
15
Pollywog was in demand, as she always is, and Effie too-redheadsis popular.
16
Some of us loved it as much as Dustin loves pollywogs.
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