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Pronunciation: [pˈɒlɪwˌɒɡ] (IPA)

Pollywog, a term for a young frog or toad, has several synonyms. One of the most commonly used synonyms for pollywog is the word tadpole. Tadpoles are characterized by their elongated bodies and tails, which they use to swim in water. Other synonyms for pollywog include polliwog, froglet and frogspawn. Froglet, a term that refers to a young frog that has developed legs, is used to describe a pollywog that is about to undergo metamorphosis into a frog. Frogspawn is a term used to refer to the eggs of a frog, which usually hatch into pollywogs.
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For every pollywog represented in his proper person some hundred or more of his fellow-pollywogs that he had eaten in the course of his development.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
If he had possessed the acumen of a pollywog he would have seen that my Dutch was up.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
My Redfins were assuredly no common tadpoles, and an intolerant pollywog offers worthy research for the naturalist.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe

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  • Natur duz awl her big and little jobs without making enny furse; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eklipses, and the pollywog, silently and taillessly, bekums a frog, but man kant even deliver a small-sized 4th ov July orashun without knocking down a mountain or two, and tareing up three or four primeval forests by the bleeding rutes.
    Josh Billings

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