The word "polliwog" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to refer to a tadpole or a young frog, often in a playful or informal context. Example: "The children were excited to catch polliwogs in the pond during their nature walk." Alternatives include "tadpole" or "froglet."
Tadpole, also called polliwog, aquatic larval stage of frogs and toads.
It's harder to say exactly what's politically radical about Lydia Gibson's "Teacup Whale" (1934), in which a boy finds in a puddle a tiny whale, which his mother persistently mistakes for a polliwog, and which in time must be carted to the wharf in a truck.
Years ago we had an African grow-a-frog that we bought in a toy store, a little polliwog that came in a Styrofoam container.
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The design of the steel Polliwog knife allows small hands to get a firm grip on the handle while keeping fingers safely away from the blade.
COLD SPRING HARBOR Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery and Aquarium "Polliwog Adventures".
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For Children COLD SPRING HARBOR Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery and Aquarium "Polliwog Adventures".
The heady philosophical question of whether fruit trees are art does not seem to preoccupy residents like Virgie Shields, 89, who recalled that the neighborhood was "a mud puddle with polliwogs" before 1950, the year she moved onto the choice corner lot that now boasts a persimmon tree.
We agree en masse to believe our professionally designated seers — except for the occasional pagan anarchist who thinks scientists are polliwogs without a pond and not to be trusted any farther than you can propel them.
Plenty abrasive around the office, Erin talks Ed into letting her investigate and soon is crawling around wells, collecting dead polliwogs and running into scores of folks with histories of cancer, miscarriages and hysterectomies.
