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tadpoles
/ˈtædˌpoʊlz/
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What does tadpoles mean?
noun
- 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.
“You feel as if you could scoop up the folk like tadpoles, and have a handful of them,” he said.
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It contains neither cresses crammed with tiny shellfish nor worms and tadpoles, dainty morsels both.
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.
A spawn of children cluttered the slimy pavement, for all the world like tadpoles just turned frogs on the bottom of a dry pond.