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.)).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. A tadpole transforms into a frog.
蝌蚪會(huì)變成青蛙.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
2. A few days after the eggs are laid, young frogs which are called tadpole come out of them.