Usually means: Larval stage of a frog.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tadpole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tadpole: Merriam-Webster
  3. tadpole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tadpole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tadpole: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tadpole: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tadpole, tadpole: Wordnik
  8. tadpole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tadpole: Wiktionary
  10. tadpole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tadpole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tadpole: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tadpole: Dictionary.com
  14. tadpole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tadpole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tadpole (album), Tadpole (band), Tadpole (film), Tadpole (physics), Tadpole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tadpole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tadpole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tadpole: Rhymezone
  20. Tadpole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tadpole: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tadpole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tadpole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tadpole: Netlingo
  2. tadpole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tadpole: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tadpole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tadpole, The Tadpole: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tadpole: Bicycle Glossary

(Note: See tadpoleing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A young toad or frog in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
noun:  (by extension) The aquatic larva of any amphibian.
noun:  A type of cargo bike that has two wheels in front and one in back.
noun:  (psychology) A child's basic drawing of a human being, having a detailed head but only sticks for the body and limbs.
noun:  (informal) A small child.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) An insignificant person.

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