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tadpole

[tad-pohl] / ˈtæd poʊl /






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"This image swirls with light, energy and a feeling of synchronised movement between the lilies and the tadpole tails," said Kathy Moran, Jury Chair and Editor.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

Finally, other animal species, including other mollusks, the common earthworm and even the tadpole stages of frogs, also possess a typhlosole that has not been thoroughly studied before.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024

In addition, certain character traits are already present in this species at the tadpole stage.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly.

From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023

Then the black notebook came out of his desk, and he showed me three separate sketches of a kind of frog—except with a long tail as though a part of it had stayed a tadpole.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro