tadpole

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tad=pole

CIDE DICTIONARY

tadpole, n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. tādie, tādige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See Toad, and Poll.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The hooded merganser.  [1913 Webster]

Tadpole fish. (Zoöl.) See Forkbeard (a).

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tadpole, n. a larva of an amphibian, esp. a frog, toad, or newt in its aquatic stage and breathing through gills.

Etymology

ME taddepolle (as TOAD, POLL(1) from the size of its head)

THESAURUS

tadpole

amphibian, batrachian, birdling, bullfrog, calf, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, croaker, cub, dogie, duckling, fawn, fledgling, foal, frog, fryer, gosling, hoppytoad, hoptoad, kid, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, litter, nest, nestling, newt, paddock, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, salamander, shoat, toad, tree frog, tree toad, weaner, whelp, yeanling

ROGET THESAURUS

tadpole

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.