Meaning of toadpole | Babel Free

Definitions

A young toad in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

Examples

“Toadpole Toad after metamorphosis 40g”

Toadpole Toad after metamorphosis 40g

“secondly, in many hormone-target organ interactions including the effect of estrogen on rat uterus, growth hormone and hydrocortisone on rat liver and thyroid hormone on toadpole liver, newly formed microsomes have⟳ been isolated which have⟳ increased protein synthesizing ability (Tata, 1968).”

“Ah, if only I could swim⟳ as well as that! Like⟳ a fish⟳ . . . or anyway, a toadpole.”)”

“Her stomach was swollen, and she was only a bag of bones, with a large head like⟳ a toadpole in the Oitino stream.”

“I call⟳ them the toadpole and the frogpole. Now the only way to distinguish between the two is that the toadpole tends to turn⟳ into a toad, whereas the frogpole will tend⟳ to turn⟳ into a frog.”

“VINNY. Yo, Mrs. B., I just made the incision on the toadpole! Were you watchin'?”

“toadfrog left bog whole log⟳ shagooon 'gooon toadpole go on happening go on frogging toard toadfrog Happening tail gone tale told tailless gate eggs mate”

“Females then stay⟳ in the pond just long enough to lay⟳ their eggs. Each female can lay⟳ up to 8,000 eggs. The eggs hatch after 10-20 days into toadpoles, which are black and gregarious; they then metamorphose and leave⟳ the pond when only just over 1cm long.”

“[…] leaving all consistency of aside, I fancied myself a crab, an octopus in an octopus hole, the young octopuses in a consortium of octopuses; I found myself playing toadpole in the bubbles of the sludge; but the worst part arose when I reached the immutable point⟳ of being absent from myself; my gaze would then settle⟳ upon nothing, it captured solely the luminous halo of the things around me; I began to sniff, to grunt, and to lend⟳ my ear toward my surroundings; […]”

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