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
He envisioned the snug Aircar as every man's airplane, affectionately called it his polliwog.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 George Herbert Betts
