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polliwog

NOUN
  1. a larval frog or toad

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  • Expects imply that such situation belongs to the normal immigration of toads in the course of becoming a frog from a polliwog, having nothing to do with earthquakes.
  • The humble polliwog in its development is significant of far more marvellous facts than the caterpillar changing into the butterfly, embodying as it does the deepest poetry and romance of evolution. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
  • Great … … on February 4, 2009 at 1: 12 pm | Reply petoskystone here i was thinking that ‘gollywog’ was like ‘polliwog’. which lead to ‘frogs have no hair, so this makes no sense’. dang – i miss all the decent slurs! on February 4, 2009 at 1: 30 pm | Reply Stocking That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • In those early days, it had been only a faint polliwog of mist, moving slowly through the constellation of Eridanus, just south of the Equator. Of Time and Stars
  • Of the latter truth we may judge from the fact that if one of those cells should be injured, only one-half a polliwog would result, -- either a head or a tail half. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
  • Old forms of polliwog are _pollywig_, _polewiggle_, and _pollwiggle_. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
  • Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too.
  • It seems unlikely that Palin, Lazio and other opponents of the project are enraged at the specter of polliwog swim classes and family movie nights a few blocks from Ground Zero. Kelly Caldwell: Say Yes to a Mosque at Ground Zero
  • Douglas Florian's lizards, frogs, and polliwogs pairs primal yet sophisticated watercolors with clever poems that subtly instruct on the nature of amphibians.
  • The tail of a polliwog seems a very useless appendage so far as the adult frog is concerned, yet if the polliwog's tail is cut off a perfect frog never develops. The Mind and Its Education
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