noun
- a tadpole; the larval stage of a frog or toad that lives in water and has gills and a tail
Usage: informal; chiefly American
Examples
- The children caught polliwogs in the pond with their nets.
- We watched the polliwogs swim around in the shallow water.
- The polliwog will eventually grow legs and lose its tail.
- Polliwogs breathe through gills until they develop lungs.
- The biology class studied how polliwogs transform into frogs.
- Dozens of tiny polliwogs darted between the lily pads.