tadpole
pronunciation
How to pronounce tadpole in British English:
UK [ˈtædpəʊl]
How to pronounce tadpole in American English:
US [ˈtædpoʊl]
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- Noun:
- a larval frog or toad
Word Origin
- tadpole
- tadpole: [15] A tadpole is etymologically a ‘toad-head’. The word was coined from Middle English tadde ‘toad’ and pol ‘head’ (ancestor of modern English poll ‘voting’, historically a counting of ‘heads’). Tadpoles, with their moonlike faces appearing to take up about half of their small globular bodies, seem rather like animated heads.=> poll, toad
- tadpole (n.)
- mid-15c., from tadde "toad" (see toad) + pol "head" (see poll (n.)).
Example
- 1. Tadpole shrimp live in seasonal , freshwater ponds .
- 2. In the image below , a fishing spider is eating a tadpole in gabon .
- 3. He removed the dna from a frog egg and replaced it with the dna of a mature cell taken from a tadpole . The egg developed into a healthy , cloned tadpole .
- 4. Some scientists hypothesize that the neural circuitry implicated in human hiccuping is an evolutionary vestige from our amphibian ancestors who use a similar action to aid respiration with gills during their tadpole stage .
- 5. The frog , originally discovered in 2004 but not described and announced until now , measures just 3 millimeters when it metamorphoses from a tadpole , and grows to about 9 to 11 millimeters as an adult .