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tadpole larval, aquatic stage of any of the amphibian animals. After hatching from the egg, the tadpole, sometimes called a polliwog, is gill-breathing and legless and propels itself by means of a tail. During the period of metamorphosis it develops the lungs, legs, and other organs of the adult and, in the frog and the toad, loses the tail.

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tadpole XV (taddepol). f. tadde TOAD + pol POLL, as if ‘a toad that is all head’.

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