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n. (plural of pollywog English)
Usage examples of "pollywogs".
There were no scavengers, but Mitchegai grubs, pollywogs, and juvenals all preferentially ate dead material, animal or vegetable, before they would eat live grass.
The grubs will be kept separate, and when their time comes, they will become well-fed pollywogs in their own tank.
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.
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.
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.