tadpole
Example Sentences
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During these weeks, a frog embryo develops to a young tadpole, a tadpole with two legs, and a young froglet with four legs before reaching the adult stage.
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024
"This image swirls with light, energy and a feeling of synchronised movement between the lilies and the tadpole tails," said Kathy Moran, Jury Chair and Editor.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024
The stability in personality traits is especially interesting in amphibians, as they undergo major morphological and ecological changes during metamorphosis from tadpole to frog.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly.
From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023
I decide not to tell him that I ended up being sent back to tadpole after almost drowning another camper while I flailed around in the deep end.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
