Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

toadpole

/ˈtoʊdpoʊl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: toad-pole
IPA: /ˈtoʊdpoʊl/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young toad in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.

Example Sentences

"Toadpole Toad after metamorphosis 40g"
"secondly, in many hormone-target organ interactions including the effect of estrogen on rat uterus, growth hormone and hydrocortisone on rat liver and thyroid hormone on toadpole liver, newly formed microsomes have been isolated which have increased protein synthesizing ability (Tata, 1968)."
"Ah, if only I could swim as well as that! Like a fish . . . or anyway, a toadpole.”)"
"Her stomach was swollen, and she was only a bag of bones, with a large head like a toadpole in the Oitino stream."
"I call them the toadpole and the frogpole. Now the only way to distinguish between the two is that the toadpole tends to turn into a toad, whereas the frogpole will tend to turn into a frog."
"VINNY. Yo, Mrs. B., I just made the incision on the toadpole! Were you watchin'?"

Etymology

Blend of toad + tadpole.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtoʊdpoʊl/
British English: /ˈtəʊdpoʊl/

Inflected Forms

toadpoles (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce toadpole?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtoʊdpoʊl/.
What does toadpole mean?: A young toad in its larval stage of development that lives in water, has a tail and no legs, and, like a fish, breathes through gills.
Where does toadpole come from?: Blend of toad + tadpole.

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