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TADPOLE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does tadpole mean?

• TADPOLE (noun)
The noun TADPOLE has 1 sense:

1. a larval frog or toad

Familiarity information: TADPOLE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TADPOLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A larval frog or toad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

polliwog; pollywog; tadpole

Hypernyms ("tadpole" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("tadpole" is a member of...):

amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)

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