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.

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“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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