polliwog

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Among the masses of fauna, the pigeon occupies a rung on the human scale of fuzzy affection somewhere between a common garden slug and the lesser polliwog.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2021

The Governor General of the Philippine Islands was dealt with as a polliwog, went ashore a short time later to be regaled in the palace of the Dutch Viceroy in Batavia.

From Time Magazine Archive

By comparison, Klete Keller, America's best 400-m man, and no polliwog, swam 3:47.18 last month--a new U.S. record.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ancestors of the newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tail of a polliwog seems a very useless appendage so far as the adult frog is concerned, yet if the polliwog's tail is cut off a perfect frog never develops.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert