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Answer for the clue "Potential frog ", 7 letters:
tadpole

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Wiktionary Word definitions in 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.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tadpole is the aquatic larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian. Tadpole or Tadpoles may also refer to:

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.