Crossword clues for tadpole
tadpole
- Young frog
- Young amphibian
- Baby frog
- Small frog in a big pond?
- Larva with gills
- Infant frog
- Stage in a frog's life
- Pre-frog form
- Pond juvenile
- Pond infant
- One who'll croak in the future
- One lives on after it croaks
- Larva of a frog
- Kermit as a youth
- Juvenile frog
- Infant amphibian
- Immature toad or frog
- He's a little froggy
- He'll croak eventually
- Future croaker
- Frogman trainee, in slang
- Frog's juvenile phase
- Frog stage
- Baby amphibian
- Pond denizen
- Creature that loses its tail
- Immature swimmer
- Frog-to-be
- One on the verge of croaking?
- A larval frog or toad
- Kermit as a kid
- Kermit, once?
- Polliwog
- Swimmer's story about day beside river
- Frog larva
- Young swimmer initially drowning, passed out in story
- Young creature to plead insanity
- Little rod gets this young amphibian?
- Potential frog
- Immature swimmer bit staff
- Immature frog
- Immature amphibian
- Develop data about swallows being hatched in a puddle?
- Tiny swimmer: little perch?
- Time pedalo moved for young swimmer
- Tiddler bit on rod
- This ultimately destined to leap, when developed
- Future frog
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tadpole \Tad"pole`\, n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. t[=a]die, t[=a]dige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See Toad, and Poll.]
(Zo["o]l.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
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(Zo["o]l.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U. S.]
Tadpole fish. (Zo["o]l.) See Forkbeard (a) .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 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 A type of cargo bike that has two wheels in front and one in back.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A tadpole (also called a pollywog) is the larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian, particularly that of a frog or toad. They are usually wholly aquatic, though some species have tadpoles that are terrestrial. When first hatched from the egg they have a more or less globular body, a laterally compressed tail and internal or external gills. As they grow they undergo metamorphosis, during which process they grow limbs, develop lungs and reabsorb the tail. Most tadpoles are herbivorous and during metamorphosis the mouth and internal organs are rearranged to prepare for an adult carnivorous lifestyle.
Having no hard parts, it might be expected that fossil tadpoles would not exist. However, traces of biofilms have been preserved and fossil tadpoles have been found dating back to the Miocene. Tadpoles are eaten in some parts of the world and are mentioned in folk tales and used as a symbol in ancient Egyptian numerals.
Tadpole is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Gary Winick and written by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Robert Iler, and Kate Mara.
In quantum field theory, a tadpole is a one-loop Feynman diagram with one external leg, giving a contribution to a one-point correlation function (i.e., the field's vacuum expectation value). One-loop diagrams with a propagator that connects back to its originating vertex are often also referred as tadpoles. For many massless theories, these graphs vanish in dimensional regularization (by dimensional analysis and the absence of any inherent mass scale in the loop integral).
The physics of tadpoles and the word tadpole was invented by Sidney Coleman. The editor was not satisfied, but he changed his mind once Sidney Coleman proposed spermion or lollypop instead. All words are derived from the shape of the Feynman diagram: a circle with a line interval attached to its external side. Tadpole diagrams, in this sense, first appear in a paper by Coleman and Sheldon Lee Glashow in 1964.
A tadpole is the aquatic larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian.
Tadpole or Tadpoles may also refer to:
Tadpole was a New Zealand rock band from Auckland fronted by female vocalist Renée Brennan. The band formed in June, 1994, and, after numerous line-up changes, disbanded in late 2006.
Tadpole is the third, and final, studio album from New Zealand rock group, Tadpole. It was released on May 2, 2006.
This was the last album recorded by the band before they split up. The album's launch party in Auckland was also the band's final ever performance.
The Tadpole is a small dinghy with an approximate length of and an approximate beam of 3 feet. Its gaff rig has of sail area.
Usage examples of "tadpole".
When the news spread that the Tadpole Angel would be directing the people in the singing indaba, it was immediately assumed the concert had a mystical significance and I had chosen this time to meet all of the people.
This by way of explanation for his being most unamused when George put several small tadpoles in his ale, after Uncle Rupert went duck hunting with their father.
In the normal development of the tadpole from the egg, as in all other vertebrate animals, the lens is formed from the outer skin or ectoderm of the head.
On the other hand, they gorged a tadpole with thyroxin, and almost immediately it changed to a frog.
No fish were to be found in the temporary bodies of water, unless they happened to become part of a year-round river or stream, but amid the roots of tall phragmite reeds, bulrushes, sedges, and cattails swam the tadpoles of edible frogs and fire-bellied toads.
There were tentacled white slugs, squirming lam-preylike fish with toothy suckers, and things which looked like newts and tadpoles.
There was also another study where they did something to tadpoles, where they found that the neurons keep reentangling themselves and shifting all throughout your life.
Thou art already proved by thwackings, seasoned to the undertaking, and I doubt not thou art he that will finish with that tadpole Shagpat, and sit in the high seat, thy name an odour in distant lands, a joy to the historian, the Compiler of Events, thou Master of the Event, the greatest which time will witness for ages to come.
The egg from which they first developed into tadpole form was deposited, with millions of others, in one of the warm pools and with it a poisonous serum that the carnivora instinctively shunned.
They are what you are before you are born, and, whether you are going to be a tadpole or a peacock or a camelopard or a man, when you are an embryo you just look like a peculiarly repulsive and helpless human being.
And from thy star there passed repeated flashes across the head of the tadpole, till his brilliance was as 'twere severed from him, and he, like drossy silver, a dead shape in the conspicuous heavens.
Their whales were the size of first-day tadpoles, their sequoias were like antler lichen, and so on down the line.
Only a few individuals seem to retain in adulthood the eidetic memory of their childhood, a sort of arrested development, like the tadpole that won't metamorphose into a frog.
I was confronted by a six-foot woman with ginger hair, bobble hat and tadpole veil frilling her chin.
Fat Dhuta and Doctor Lu had reported to Leader Hong that they had found a child prodigy who had been able to interpret the Tadpole inscription, and the Great Leader had demanded to set eyes on the prodigy for himself.