Tadpole Definition

tădpōl
tadpoles
noun
tadpoles
The larva of certain amphibians, as frogs and toads, having gills and a tail and living in water: as it matures, the gills usually are lost and legs develop.
Webster's New World
The free-swimming larval stage of tunicates, having gill slits and a notochord.
Webster's New World

A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

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Noun

Singular:
tadpole
Plural:
tadpoles

Origin of Tadpole

  • Middle English taddepol tadde, tode toad toad pol head poll

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, tad (“toad") and poll (“head").

    From Wiktionary

Tadpole Sentence Examples

  • The tadpole larvae are often present in plankton catches.

  • It is absurd to call the larva of a newt or of a Caecilian a tadpole, nor is the free-swimming embryo of a frog as it leaves the egg a tadpole.

  • In accordance with this view there would be also some probability in favour of regarding the collar nerve-tube of the Enteropneusta as the equivalent of the cerebral vesicle only of Amphioxus and the Ascidian tadpole, and also of the primary forebrain of vertebrates.

  • A tadpole is the larva of a tailless Batrachian after the loss of the external gills and before the egress of the fore limbs (except in the aberrant Xenopus) and the resorption of the tail.

  • I see my fairy shrimps and tadpole shrimps avoid nets, or thrash when a predator bites them.

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