Tadpole
noun
The baby of a frog or toad, which lives in water and has a long tail but no legs.
The pond is full of tadpoles.
Often appears as...
- turn into a tadpole
- swim like a tadpole
noun
The baby of a frog or toad, which lives in water and has a long tail but no legs.
The pond is full of tadpoles.
Often appears as...
- turn into a tadpole
- swim like a tadpole
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Pro Tip 1/3Life Stage
A tadpole is a stage in the life cycle of amphibians, not a separate creature.
In spring, you can often see tadpoles developing in ponds.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Change
Tadpoles undergo metamorphosis, meaning they change form as they grow into adult frogs or toads.
The children were fascinated watching the tadpole sprout legs.
Pro Tip 3/3Habitat Context
Tadpoles are aquatic, which means they live in water until they mature.
We saw hundreds of tadpoles in the shallow waters of the lake.
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Stephen Ritz: A teacher...
I urge you to do something. Right now, we're all tadpoles, but I urge you to become a big frog and take that big, green leap. I don't care if you're on the left, on the right, up the middle, wherever. Join me. Use -- I've got a lot of energy. Help me use it. We can do something here. And along the way, please take time to smell the flowers, especially if you and your students grew them.
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Michael Levin: The...
That's how a lot of us think about this. That model leaves too many deep mysteries. Can you share with us some of those mysteries and also what tadpoles have to do with it? Sure. Yeah. I'd like to give you another perspective on this problem.
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Why are frogs...
and other disease vectors, thus, protecting us against malaria, dengue fever, and other illnesses. Tadpoles keep waterways clean by feeding on algae, reducing the demand on our community's filtration systems and keeping our cost of water low.
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Getting Water in the...
That's stagnant right they're. Not interested in that. Why is it important to have rapidly moving water? In a stagnant pond, what do you get if you're down south maybe in the lower world? Tadpoles, slime-- you're going to get sick.
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Innovative and cost...
a fly out of it maybe does no leg does no food whatever that's walk around the most important thing about this nature products is that they are bio-friendly put them all on your fish bones no tadpoles will die now another enemy of
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Trials of a Tadpole PIPE...
foiling the predators below take a look at some super close-up micro camera footage of a frog taking the journey from egg to tadpole here captured on film is the miracle of life when the tadpoles outgrow the birth chamber they
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Red-eyed Tree Frog's...
recognizable tadpole it's ready to hatch and drop into the water but there are fish just waiting for a plump delicious helpless tadpole talk about fate the possibility of being gobbled by a vine
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African Bullfrog Dad...
it's a powerful incentive for him to stay. There's another good reason Tadpoles need help to survive the tropical sun and its shrinking effect on their shallow pools.
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Top 5 Slithering Snake...
they drip into the pond as more advanced tadpoles better able to defend themselves
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Frog Defends Eggs From...
but these tadpoles are not as helpless as they might appear
Video examples
Stephen Ritz: A teacher...
I urge you to do something. Right now, we're all tadpoles, but I urge you to become a big frog and take that big, green leap. I don't care if you're on the left, on the right, up the middle, wherever. Join me. Use -- I've got a lot of energy. Help me use it. We can do something here. And along the way, please take time to smell the flowers, especially if you and your students grew them.
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
That's how a lot of us think about this. That model leaves too many deep mysteries. Can you share with us some of those mysteries and also what tadpoles have to do with it? Sure. Yeah. I'd like to give you another perspective on this problem.
Video examples
Why are frogs...
and other disease vectors, thus, protecting us against malaria, dengue fever, and other illnesses. Tadpoles keep waterways clean by feeding on algae, reducing the demand on our community's filtration systems and keeping our cost of water low.
Video examples
Getting Water in the...
That's stagnant right they're. Not interested in that. Why is it important to have rapidly moving water? In a stagnant pond, what do you get if you're down south maybe in the lower world? Tadpoles, slime-- you're going to get sick.
Video examples
Innovative and cost...
a fly out of it maybe does no leg does no food whatever that's walk around the most important thing about this nature products is that they are bio-friendly put them all on your fish bones no tadpoles will die now another enemy of
Video examples
Trials of a Tadpole PIPE...
foiling the predators below take a look at some super close-up micro camera footage of a frog taking the journey from egg to tadpole here captured on film is the miracle of life when the tadpoles outgrow the birth chamber they
Video examples
Red-eyed Tree Frog's...
recognizable tadpole it's ready to hatch and drop into the water but there are fish just waiting for a plump delicious helpless tadpole talk about fate the possibility of being gobbled by a vine
Video examples
African Bullfrog Dad...
it's a powerful incentive for him to stay. There's another good reason Tadpoles need help to survive the tropical sun and its shrinking effect on their shallow pools.
Video examples
Top 5 Slithering Snake...
they drip into the pond as more advanced tadpoles better able to defend themselves
Video examples
Frog Defends Eggs From...
but these tadpoles are not as helpless as they might appear
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Quote examples
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch Scientist
If we now plainly perceive that the passage of the blood from the arteries into the veins of the tadpole is not performed in any other than those vessels, which are so minute as only to admit the passage of a single globule at a time, we may conclude that the same is performed in like manner in our own bodies and in those of other animals.
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Big Show
American Wrestler
I think competition is the best thing for everyone. Competition is what makes us evolve, from when we were itty bitty little tadpoles in prehistoric times to what we've turned into now. Competition makes us evolve and makes us push ourselves better.
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John Gurdon
English Scientist
Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage.
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Daisy May Cooper
English Actress
I love being outside in nature, especially by the water - if I could, I would come back as a tadpole so that I could just swim around all the time and have zero responsibility.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.
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William S. Burroughs
American Writer
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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John Gurdon
English Scientist
Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.
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William Joyce
American Author
I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.
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DeForest Kelley
American Actor
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
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Toni Braxton
American Musician
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
Quote examples
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch Scientist
If we now plainly perceive that the passage of the blood from the arteries into the veins of the tadpole is not performed in any other than those vessels, which are so minute as only to admit the passage of a single globule at a time, we may conclude that the same is performed in like manner in our own bodies and in those of other animals.
Quote examples
Big Show
American Wrestler
I think competition is the best thing for everyone. Competition is what makes us evolve, from when we were itty bitty little tadpoles in prehistoric times to what we've turned into now. Competition makes us evolve and makes us push ourselves better.
Quote examples
John Gurdon
English Scientist
Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage.
Quote examples
Daisy May Cooper
English Actress
I love being outside in nature, especially by the water - if I could, I would come back as a tadpole so that I could just swim around all the time and have zero responsibility.
Quote examples
Sam Kean
American Writer
The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.
Quote examples
William S. Burroughs
American Writer
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
Quote examples
John Gurdon
English Scientist
Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.
Quote examples
William Joyce
American Author
I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.
Quote examples
DeForest Kelley
American Actor
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
Quote examples
Toni Braxton
American Musician
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
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