A larval frog or toad

Usage examples of pollywog.

In those early days, it had been only a faint pollywog of mist, moving slowly through the constellation of Eridanus, just south of the Equator.

I have designed a research building with three dozen large complexes that will let us test three dozen types of juvenals simultaneously, keeping each type separate from the grub stage, through the pollywog stage, and then as juvenals and even a few brainless adults to make more eggs.

Eventually, nothing was left but a single mummified pollywog who was never able to get to water, along with some scattered weapons, and seven well-filled pouches of currency.

My theory is that some alien space satellite was set in orbit to seed Earth with life, and it has been cloning frog eggs and raising pollywogs, and launching frogs down on us ever since Earth cooled and the oceans condensed.

McCubby pumped his flaccid arms up and down, and he disgorged quite an astonishing quantity of water, mud, weeds and pollywogs, while I bound up the hole in his foot with a strip torn from my crotch bandages.

And when the pollywogs were ready to become juvenals, it would be a simple matter for them to eat their way back up to the air.

The grubs will be kept separate, and when their time comes, they will become well-fed pollywogs in their own tank.

There were no scavengers, but Mitchegai grubs, pollywogs, and juvenals all preferentially ate dead material, animal or vegetable, before they would eat live grass.

To all animals, even pollywogs, the family has a distinctive aroma, as distinctive as a clan plaid.

It shouted and played with steaming little roots and nudged the minnows and pollywogs about in its tiny backwaters.

I remember once when we were doing science in school I took the jars for me and Elmer to catch pollywogs in, and you raised holy hell about taking family heirlooms out of the house.

Water for drinking purposes had to be hauled five miles in a barrel, then the pollywogs and wiggletails had to be strained out, if a man was finicky about them, for consumption.

Schoeneman as King Neptune, suitably attired and wielding a gilded trident symbolic of his office, held court on the fantail and decreed various ordeals for the pollywogs, who had been ordered to appear before him wearing only white regulation, boxer-type skivvy shorts.

All pollywogs were made to crawl through a long canvas tube about three feet in diameter into which had been thrown assorted slippery and evil-smelling refuse from the galley, while a double row of shelibacks wielded canvas straps against their vulnerable sterns.

Ted Gruhn, the Royal Barber, who although relatively gentle with the other commissioned pollywogs, left his old nemesis with only a Mohawklike tuft on the front and center of his scalp.