Bible Dictionaries
Tadpole

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.

(2):

(n.) The hooded merganser.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tadpole'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tadpole.html. 1828.