Crossword clues for polliwog
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. (context US dialectal English) A tadpole.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A polliwog is a tadpole, the offspring of an amphibian.
Polliwog or pollywog may also refer to:
- Binyah Binyah Polliwog, a character on the children's television series Gullah Gullah Island
- Pollywog, a sailor who has not crossed the Equator, in the Line-crossing ceremony initiation rite
- "The Pollywogg", a song by Captain Bogg and Salty from Bedtime Stories For Pirates
Usage examples of "polliwog".
In the spring they caught polliwogs along the marshy edges of the pond and climbed trees to stare in wonder at the tiny blue eggs the birds had laid in twiggy nests in the high branches.
It struck the backstop not a foot from the goal, but before the eagle-eyed Weems could shift his hand, a Polliwog player was in the air and had caught it with one of his reflectors.
Seen from stasis, Earth has the aspect of a pale polliwog, much larger than the others.
It is a silver polliwog and, like Earth, seems to be hurtling toward us.
Nnanji will not be satisfied to be merely reeve of some polliwog village?
In those early days, it had been only a faint polliwog of mist, moving slowly through the constellation of Eridanus, just south of the Equator.
Sam said, and then spluttered as water splashed off a luckless polliwog and onto him.
The Polliwogs scattered out at the other end of the court, tense and waiting.
To the Polliwogs, the knowledge they had lost their ship had been as dispiriting as the seeming certainty of their impending doom.
Sometimes as I look through my black window at the polliwogs of stars, I make mental jumps to Earth Past.
It is hard to believe that once they were polliwogs in a big black pool.
On the nineteenth of April, as she did every year, Lily pulled on her rubber boots and tramped through the woods to the further swamp to find the first polliwogs, which were never not there, on the nineteenth, freshly hatched into the bell-clear water.
And not just ordinary land, but rich, arable land, that could grow their single grasslike crop, that could provide the grubs, the polliwogs and the juvenals with food.
There was a patrol up at Temple Camp named the Polliwogs and they were all nice fellows.
And the suffering polliwogs needed to remember that they were turning into shellbacks.