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TadpoleA tadpole (also known as a pollywog) is a larval frog, toad, salamander, or newt. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first lacking legs, and has a finlike tail. As a tadpole matures, it metamorphoses by gradually growing limbs and then (in the case of frogs and toads) absorbing its tail. Most tadpoles are herbivorous, subsisting on algae. In a few species, some tadpoles turn cannibalistic under harsh conditions and feed on other tadpoles living in the pond. frog embryos
Embryos (and one tadpole) of
the wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa).
Tadpole is a 2002 film directed by Gary Winick about a boy who falls in love with an older woman. See: Tadpole (movie). In physics, a tadpole is a Feynman diagram with one external leg (the name is due to Sidney Coleman) and it encodes a one-point function (correlation function of one field). See tadpole (physics). In the US Navy, a pollywog is a sailor who has not yet crossed the equator while on a ship.
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