| 单词 | tadpole form |
| 释义 | > as lemmastadpole form C1. attributive and in other combinations, as tadpole form, tadpole state, etc.; tadpole-like adj. ΚΠ 1682 J. Dryden Medall 19 Frogs and Toads, and all the Tadpole Train. 1682 S. Pordage Medal Revers'd 30 The Tadpole-Priests, Shall lift above the Lords, their Priestly Crests. 1768 G. White Let. 18 June in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 49 Frogs are as yet in their tadpole state. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §980 The young animal [ascidian] has..a large tadpole-like tail. 1856 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. II. 27 At first it has a tadpole-like form. < as lemmas |
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