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pol·li·wog

also pol·ly·wog (pŏl′ē-wŏg′, -wôg′)
n.

[Variant of polliwig, from Middle English polwigle : pol, head; see poll + wiglen, to wiggle; see wiggle.]
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polliwog

(ˈpɒlɪˌwɒɡ) or

pollywog

n
1. (Animals) dialect Brit and US and Canadian another name for tadpole
2. (Nautical Terms) informal a sailor who has not crossed the equator. Compare shellback
[C15 polwygle; see poll, wiggle]
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Noun 1. [画像:polliwog - a larval frog or toad]polliwog - a larval frog or toad
amphibia, class Amphibia - the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians
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
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Translations

polliwog

[ˈpɒlɪwɒg] N (US) (Zool) → renacuajo m
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polliwog

n (US) → Kaulquappe f
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Nevertheless, I cannot help thinking that if we would put an improved breed of polliwogs in our drinking water, construct shallower roadways, groom the street cows, offer the stranger within our gates a free choice between the poniard and the potion, and relinquish our private system of morals, the other measures of public safety would be needless."
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Eight exuberant tunes about dinos, sharing, dragons, recycling, polliwogs, dancing, springtime, and manners encourage young listeners to get up and dance.
Support comes from Whalter, Little Pink Polliwogs and Ultraviolet.
But in Oregon, children are the experimental polliwogs for policies that allow helicopters to spread gene-altering chemicals into the environment.
Nothing gave me more pleasure than simply sitting by the side of that stream-we called it "the crick"-absorbed in the private lives of polliwogs, minnows, and an occasional water snake.
Our mother calls us back, and we situate ourselves at the dock's edge to poke at the polliwogs that swarm below.
There are no fish in Mono Lake--no frogs, no snakes, no polliwogs --nothing, in fact, that goes to make life desirable.
The person had permission from the owner and was saving polliwogs from a drying puddle.
As soon as winter snows melted in the fields and the last ice thawed in spring, we eagerly visited a nearby pond to see if the polliwogs had hatched.
Those that step forward must prove themselves trustworthy, not polliwogs - tadpoles learning to swim with the frogs in the grown ups' pond.
islands, / like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands,

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