| What is a tadpole? 1.The aquatic larva of a frog, toad, or salamander that has a limbless round body, gills, and a tail. Microsoft |
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~ Encarta Encyclopedia 2002. ~
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| 2. A very young frog or toad when it still lives underwater and has grills, a tail, and no legs. | |
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~ Macmillian Dictionary for Children ~
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| 3. The form a frog takes between coming out of the egg and becoming fully grown. | |
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~ Macmillian Student's Dictionary ~
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| 4. The larvae of frogs and toads. It is more or less globular in shape, with no sharp distinction between the head and the rest of the body, ad there is a long, muscular tail with a membranous crest on both its dorsal and ventral edges. Even though the tadpole is free-living and obtains its own food it is still considered as part of the embryology of the frog or toad because until the adult forn is reached all the organs of the body are not fully developed. | |
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~ Encyclopedia of the Animal World, Elsevier International Projects Ltd, London ~ |
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