TADPOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tadpole mean? 

• TADPOLE (noun)
  The noun TADPOLE has 1 sense:

1. a larval frog or toad

  Familiarity information: TADPOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TADPOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A larval frog or toad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

polliwog; pollywog; tadpole

Hypernyms ("tadpole" 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 ("tadpole" is a member of...):

amphibia; class Amphibia (the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians)

 Context examples 

Using ‘single-cell genomics’, scientists at the Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge developed an ingenious strategy to uncover what happens in different tadpole cells when they regenerate their tails.

(Scientists find new type of cell that helps tadpoles’ tails regenerate, University of Cambridge)