tadpole

Converse of object

• hatch: The hatching black tadpoles look very different to the adults.
• catch: The adults prey on small animals such as frogs and will also enter water to catch tadpoles, newts and even small fish.
• eat: They commonly prey on other insects, but large dragonfly nymphs are also capable of catching and eating tadpoles or small fish.
• see: Come back over the next few days and weeks to see the tadpoles grow!
• include: They will eat much of it, including tadpoles.
• develop: Stones projecting above the surface give developing tadpoles an opportunity to soak up the sun!

Adjective modifier

• large: All the fish were pink in color and shaped like large tadpoles.
• small: From this mass of eggs there emerge numbers of small dark tadpoles.
• other: Newts will eat tadpoles, but then so do other tadpoles - that's life in the pond!
• little: Its spawn is in long strings of jelly like eggs - from which little black tadpoles emerge.
• tiny: Move, & move again lower, to by tiny lac au tadpoles.
• black: Its spawn is in long strings of jelly like eggs - from which little black tadpoles emerge.

Modifies a noun

• shrimp: I see my fairy shrimps and tadpole shrimps avoid nets, or thrash when a predator bites them.
• stage: There are some species that do not conform to the norm and may take up to 6 months to go through the tadpole stage.
• larva: The tadpole larvae are often present in plankton catches.

Noun used with modifier

• toad: Newts will eat frog tadpoles, but take toad tadpoles less readily.
• newt: The newt tadpole looks more like the adult form, unlike frog or toad juveniles which do not.
• frog: The frog tadpoles still have not grown any legs.

Possessives

tail: In some amphibians, such as frogs and toads, the tadpole's tail is eventually lost by being absorbed into the body.

Preposition: in

pond: So I now consider that I have tadpoles in the new pond!