TADPOLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A larval frog or toad

Synonyms:

polliwog; pollywog; tadpole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tadpole" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("tadpole" is a member of...):

amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)

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