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tadpoles

/ˈtædˌpoʊlz/

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What does tadpoles mean?

noun

  1. plural of tadpole

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈtædˌpoʊlz/

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This afternoon my gardener brought in some tadpoles with the hind-legs alone developed, and I looked at the rudiment.
Charles DarwinMore Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished LettersProject Gutenberg ebook #2739
“You feel as if you could scoop up the folk like tadpoles, and have a handful of them,” he said.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217
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It contains neither cresses crammed with tiny shellfish nor worms and tadpoles, dainty morsels both.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
A spawn of children cluttered the slimy pavement, for all the world like tadpoles just turned frogs on the bottom of a dry pond.
Jack LondonThe People of the AbyssProject Gutenberg ebook #1688