tadpole
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- noun
- /ˈtædˌpoʊl/
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renacuajo
- In the pond, the tadpole swam happily among the water plants, showcasing its long tail.
- toad tadpoles
- tadpole development
- small tadpoles
It will no longer swirl with tadpoles or ripple with fish.
- It will no longer swirl with tadpoles or ripple with fish.
- We just sat by this little pond full of tadpoles.
- And that tadpole was deep, you know, deep black and deep blue mottled spots.
- I mean, so let me ask you, what's the difference between an oil drop and a little tadpole or a little lava or plankton?
- So like unlike the bubbles we saw on the slime, which would look like more like eyes, this looks more like tadpole fish eggs.
Examples
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The size of the larvae and tadpoles at the time they metamorphose is also important.
Academic text (1992) -
"Once the frogs and tadpoles die off, the stream community changes."
Academic text (2007) -
All right, now, turns out tadpoles do the same thing because they live in water.
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For example, tadpoles past a certain stage in their development don't normally regenerate lost body parts.
Academic text (2012) -
Like the mosquito larvae, the tadpoles must metamorphose into adults before the pools dry.
Academic text (1992) -
Zarah busily photographed the spiders, butterflies, and tadpoles as we walked through the orchid forest.
Academic text (2006) -
In the murky depths of a nearby pond, a tadpole unwittingly swims into the path of the bladder wort, the speediest of all carnivorous plants.
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As the weather warmed, the small tadpole grew legs, beginning its transformation into a frog.
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The school children gathered around the pond to observe the tadpoles as they played near the surface of the water.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A free-swimming baby sea animal that looks like a tadpole and has a stiff rod in its tail
- Specialized
A small fresh water animal like a shrimp with a wide shell and a tadpole-like body
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tadpole comes from old words tadde ('toad') and pol ('head'), so it once meant 'toad-head'. That is a good image because a tadpole looks like a small round head with a tail, so the name fits the young form of frogs and toads.