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tadpolish

tadpolish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tadpole.

Adjective

tadpolish (comparative more tadpolish, superlative most tadpolish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tadpole.
    • The swampy pools, such as the jungle abounds in, seem to be her ideal. The eggs in due course of time hatch out into tiny tadpolish larvae.1912, Arthur Bullard, Panama: the canal, the country and the people
    • In the case of the human figure, the lowest level of the scale represents a global or tadpolish figure...2004, Claire Golomb, The child's creation of a pictorial world, page 306
    Synonyms:
    tadpoley

Synonyms of tadpolish

  • tadpoley

Forms of tadpolish

comparativemore tadpolish
superlativemost tadpolish

Origin of tadpolish

From tadpole + -ish.

Questions about tadpolish

What does tadpolish mean?
Tadpolish means resembling or characteristic of a tadpole.
What part of speech is tadpolish?
Tadpolish is an adjective.

Words near tadpolish in the dictionary

  1. tadpole shrimps
  2. tadpole tea
  3. tadpolehood
  4. tadpolelike
  5. tadpoles
  6. tadpolish
  7. tadpolism
  8. tads
  9. Tadworth
  10. Tadych
  11. Tadyches

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