Tadpole

(noun.) a larval frog or toad.

整理:萨莎

• My dear Watson,--I have no doubt that you can remember Tadpole Phelps, who was in the fifth form when you were in the third. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The Ebers papyr us shows that the Egyptians knew of the development of the beetle from the egg, of the blow-fly from the larva, and of the frog from the tadpole. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• A tadpole is for a time a fish; it becomes a land creature as it develops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The young tadpole has branching external gills that wave in the water; then a gill cover grows back over them and forms a gill chamber. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the beginning it must breathe in air; it can never breathe under water as a tadpole can do. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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