tadpole
the aquatic larva or immature form of frogs and toads, especially after the development of the internal gills and before the appearance of the forelimbs and the resorption of the tail.
Origin of tadpole
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How to use tadpole in a sentence
“If there’s no water, the tadpoles also can just hang out in the foam for a while,” says Mike Ryan, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Texas at Austin who has studied the túngara frog’s calls.
The next generation of skincare might come from frog foam | Rahul Rao | September 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHe was just searching, one night, for tadpoles in natural pools of water.
Some beetles walk along the underside of the water’s surface | Jake Buehler | July 29, 2021 | Science News For StudentsNone of their incarnations look anything like a frog as it grows from an embryo to a tadpole.
By manipulating the electrical signals, we made tadpoles where everything was in the wrong place.
When he watched the tadpoles dart back and forth in the blue-green pools, when he climbed the rocks and ran his fingers through moss thick as wool, “it was like magic,” he says.
A day’s drive from Chicago, exploring a very different Illinois | Carson Vaughan | February 12, 2021 | Washington Post
And the “Pond Pit” snack bar will serve fried tadpole rolls.
Next to his desk, which does not have computer on it, swims a frog he grew from a mail-order tadpole.
But the second I met him and saw his tadpole garden, I was like, “Oh, this kid is not any cooler than me.”
Miranda July Talks About Her New Book 'It Chooses You' | Carolyn Sun | November 23, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTLet us not forget to add that he styled Keats "the tadpole of the Lakists."
My Recollections of Lord Byron | Teresa GuiccioliShortly after the tadpole wriggles out of the jellylike case and begins life outside the egg.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterAs the tadpole grows larger, legs appear, the hind legs first, although for a time locomotion is performed by means of the tail.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterWe distinguish frogs from tadpoles, in spite of the fact that at one stage the creature is half tadpole and half frog.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairThe map of Norway, apart from Sweden, presents an outline something like a tadpole with a crooked irregular tail.
Three in Norway | James Arthur Lees
British Dictionary definitions for tadpole
/ (ˈtædˌpəʊl) /
the aquatic larva of frogs, toads, etc, which develops from a limbless tailed form with external gills into a form with internal gills, limbs, and a reduced tail
Origin of tadpole
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