toadpole
nounUS /ˈtoʊdpoʊl/ · UK /ˈtəʊdpoʊl/
Etymology Blend of toad + tadpole.
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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.
- Toadpole Toad after metamorphosis 40g1963, Hermann Stieve, Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung, volume 70, Academische Verslagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig K.-G., page 149:
- 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).1970, Harvey W. Mohrenweiser, Role of Hormones in Controlling Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis During Lactogenesis, Michigan State University. Departments of Biochemistry and Dairy, page 36:
4 more examples
- Ah, if only I could swim as well as that! Like a fish . . . or anyway, a toadpole.”)1984, Phil Murphy, Summer Island, Oberon Press, →ISBN, page 113:
- Her stomach was swollen, and she was only a bag of bones, with a large head like a toadpole in the Oitino stream.1989, Okot p'Bitek, “Section 3”, in White Teeth, reprint edition, Heinemann Kenya, →ISBN, page 29:
- 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.2003 November 19, Peter Cook, “The Tadpole Expert”, in William W. Cook, editor, Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook, illustrated, reprint edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 63:
- VINNY. Yo, Mrs. B., I just made the incision on the toadpole! Were you watchin'?2006, Charlie Shanian, Shari Simpson, Maybe Baby, It's You, Dramatic Publishing, →ISBN, page 20: