tadpole
Example Sentences
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Often, the voracious few-inch creature chomps off the tails of freshwater fish and tadpoles, leaving them to die.
From New York Times
First, I was just a lad of 39 when I wrote the above-referenced op-ed; practically a baby, a spring chicken, a tadpole with little nubs of cynical land legs just beginning to show.
From Salon
In some nests stranded on dry land, embryos even endured well after full development, until a pool was replenished by rain—and a few successfully hatched into tadpoles.
From Scientific American
Part of that has to do with the nature of the tadpoles used in experiments, and how they differ from humans in their physiology.
From Salon
“Dragonflies have found it — and frogs, toads, salamanders, tadpoles.”
From Washington Post
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