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How to use tadpole in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Tadpole means 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. Example: “A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.”

Examples of tadpole by meaning

nounA small child.

  • Shouldn't you tadpoles be in bed?1970, Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Lone Woman, page 174

More sentences with tadpole

  • A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.From the entry spawn
  • The tadpole changed into a frog.From the entry change
  • I had one delayed when I wasn’t refreshing its tadpole tea enough.2024 June 18, User ClaimPowerful8024, reddit.com. From the entry tadpole tea
  • Frogpole At about ten weeks, the tadpole has grown front legs.2001, What's the Difference?, Learning Media Ltd, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry frogpole
  • The tail and gills are absorbed for food and lungs develop; now the tadpole surfaces for air.1997, Michael J. Caduto, Joseph Bruchac, “The Woman Who Married A Frog”, in Keepers of the Animals: Native American Stories and Wildlife…. From the entry frogpole
  • 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
  • I have discussed using tadpole tea with him and he said he had had no fungal problems just using plain water.2012 February 9, marcuswinner1, reptileforums.co.uk. From the entry tadpole tea
  • When the evening comes, God's face then is a nightful of stars that lay to rest on the nearby tadpole water.2001, MaComère - Volume 4, page 25. From the entry nightful
  • 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
  • Examples of gerrymandering still abound, with many districts being shaped like forms of animal life, both extinct and contemporary, such as snakes, tadpoles, and pterosauruses.2002, Jacob S. Siegel, “[Some Political Applications of Demographic Data and Methods] Redistricting”, in Applied Demography: Applications…. From the entry pterosaurus
  • So far these results include the following families of the integrals: 3-loop onshell massless vertices, 3-loop onshell mass operator type integrals, 4-loop QED-type tadpoles, 4-loop massless propagators.2015, Roman N. Lee, Kirill T. Mingulov, “Introducing SummerTime: a package for high-precision computation of sums appearing in DRA…. From the entry onshell
  • Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 74. From the entry apoptosis
  • On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids.1972, Zdeněk V. Špinar, Tertiary frogs from Central Europe. From the entry xenopid
  • After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry wade

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 tadpole in a sentence

How do you use tadpole in a sentence?
Tadpole is used as a noun. For example: “A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.”
What is a short sentence with tadpole?
“Shouldn't you tadpoles be in bed?”
What does tadpole mean?
Tadpole means 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.

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