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Plural of tadpole

regular plural

The plural of tadpole is tadpoles.

Forms of tadpole

Singulartadpole /ˈtædpoʊl/
Pluraltadpoles
Countablecountable

Tadpoles in a sentence

  • Shouldn't you tadpoles be in bed?1970, Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Lone Woman, page 174
  • A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.From the entry spawn
  • I look for tadpoles and admire the spring ephemerals.2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Why we won't avoid a climate…. From the entry spring ephemeral
  • Tadpoles of the B. bombina are devoid of anicotto glanduare.1981, Acta Biologica Cracoviensia: Series: Zoologia, volumes 23-26, page 36. From the entry bombinator
  • The tadpoles thus produced are then identical twins, octuplets, or centuplets of the original donor of the transplanted nuclei.1972, Robert T. Francoeur, Eve's New Rib: Twenty Faces of Sex, Marriage and Family. From the entry centuplet

Meaning of tadpole

  1. noun A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
  2. noun The aquatic larva of any amphibian.
  3. noun A type of cargo bike that has two wheels in front and one in back.

Full definition of tadpole

Questions about the plural of tadpole

What is the plural of tadpole?
The plural of tadpole is tadpoles.
Is tadpole countable?
Tadpole is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tadpole (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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