tadpole: [15] A tadpole is etymologically a ‘toad-head’. The word was coined from Middle English tadde ‘toad’ and pol ‘head’ (ancestor of modern English poll ‘voting’, historically a counting of ‘heads’). Tadpoles, with their moonlike faces appearing to take up about half of their small globular bodies, seem rather like animated heads. => poll, toad
tadpole (n.)
mid-15c., from tadde "toad" (see toad) + pol "head" (see poll (n.)).
实用例句
1. A tadpole transforms into a frog.
蝌蚪会变成青蛙.来自《简明英汉词典》
2. A few days after the eggs are laid, young frogs which are called tadpole come out of them.
卵产下几天以后, 称为蝌蚪的青蛙幼虫就从卵里出来了.来自《简明英汉词典》
3. As a tadpole changes into a frog, its tail is gradually absorbed.
蝌蚪变成蛙, 它的尾巴就逐渐被吸收掉.来自辞典例句
4. The tadpole is the larva of the frog.
蝌蚪是蛙的幼体.来自辞典例句
5. What would we do if this patient were not just a tadpole?
