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Definition of Tadpoles
1. tadpole [n] - See also: tadpole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tadpoles
Literary usage of Tadpoles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"XXII tadpoles AND FROGS THE season of tadpoles is not a season recognised by
housekeepers and gourmets (except in France, where frogs are eaten in April), ..."
2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Feeding Experiments on tadpoles: Prostate Gland and Other Substances. ... In the
first series the tadpoles were fed with the prostate and control substances ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... of eels (Leptocephali), of certain salamanders (axolotls], and of frogs (tadpoles),
being the most noticeable. LARV.33, also LEMURE, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... tadpoles. See FROG. Morocco, an oasis on the southern border of Morocco and
northwestern border of the Sahara region, 200 miles south by east of Fez. ..."
5. The Evolution of Sex by Patrick Geddes, John Arthur Thomson (1908)
"(a) The Case of tadpoles.—Not a few investigators who have passed from statistics
and hypothesis to experiment and induction, have found their material in ..."
6. Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson (1883)
"The gill-arches of reptiles, birds, and mammals never develop gills ; and even
the gills and gill-clefts of tadpoles (depicted in Fig. ..."
7. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1851)
"Mr. II. observed in all the vessels that the tadpoles, after escaping from the
ova, had about an equal growth as long as any of the jelly-like substances of ..."
8. First Lessons in Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1903)
"While the development of the tadpoles is going on in the schoolroom observations
on the growth and changes of those in the natural ponds outdoors should be ..."
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