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POLLIWOG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does polliwog mean?
• POLLIWOG (noun)
The noun POLLIWOG has 1 sense:
1. a larval frog or toad
Familiarity information: POLLIWOG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A larval frog or toad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("polliwog" is a kind of...):
larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)
Holonyms ("polliwog" is a member of...):
amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)
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