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tadpole

noun as in toad

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“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.

He was just searching, one night, for tadpoles in natural pools of water.

None 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.

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.”

Let us not forget to add that he styled Keats "the tadpole of the Lakists."

Shortly after the tadpole wriggles out of the jellylike case and begins life outside the egg.

As the tadpole grows larger, legs appear, the hind legs first, although for a time locomotion is performed by means of the tail.

We distinguish frogs from tadpoles, in spite of the fact that at one stage the creature is half tadpole and half frog.

The map of Norway, apart from Sweden, presents an outline something like a tadpole with a crooked irregular tail.

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On this page you'll find 121 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tadpole, such as: child, kid, little one, young one, youngster, and youth.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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