tadpole
noun /ˈtædpəʊl/
/ˈtædpəʊl/
(North American English also polliwog)
- enlarge imagea small creature with a large head and a small tail, that lives in water and is the young form of a frog, toad, etc.
蝌蚪 Topics Animalsc1词源late 15th cent.: from Old English tāda ‘toad’ + poll ‘head’ (probably because the tadpole seems to consist of a large head and a tail in its early development stage).