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Meanings of tadpole in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pollywog"
Examples for "pollywog"
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.
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 tadpole in English
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.
6
I could just see the bright greenness of Seaton's old tadpole pond.
7
At twelve he prepared six tadpole eggs and put them to hatch.
8
The huge creature was drugged, drowsy with contentment, mindless as a tadpole.
9
Like a tadpole, the market seems to consume itself in transactions.
10
In tandem, we developed a lethal procedure for isolating chytrids from tadpole mouthparts.
11
The little tadpole was so amazed that he could not speak.
12
Why go about things differently than any other tadpole on Earth?
13
I am going to take my tadpole home with me anyway.
14
At least you've got more mobility than a fucking tadpole on dry land.
15
Why do you stand on one leg watching a tadpole shed its tail.
16
It would be his three hundred and sixty-first separate tadpole hatching.
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Tadpole through the time
Tadpole across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common