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tadjik |
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Tadpole
| tadpole shrimp
| tadpole-like
| tadpole-shaped
| tadzhik
| tadzhikistan
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Tadpole
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Tadpole has 1 sense
- tadpole(n = noun.animal) polliwog, pollywog - a larval frog or toad; Array is a member of amphibia, class amphibia
is a kind of larva
CIDE DICTIONARY
Tadpole, n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. tādie, tādige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See Toad, and Poll.].
- The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also
polliwig ,polliwog ,porwiggle , orpurwiggy . [1913 Webster] - The hooded merganser. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Tadpole, n. a larva of an amphibian, esp. a frog, toad, or newt in its aquatic stage and breathing through gills.
Etymology
ME taddepolle (as TOAD, POLL(1) from the size of its head)
THESAURUS
Tadpole
amphibian, batrachian, birdling, bullfrog, calf, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, croaker, cub, dogie, duckling, fawn, fledgling, foal, frog, fryer, gosling, hoppytoad, hoptoad, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, litter, nest, nestling, newt, paddock, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, salamander, shoat, toad, tree frog, tree toad, weaner, whelp, yeanlingROGET THESAURUS
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Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.
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