Tăd'pōle, n.

noun

n. [A-S. tādie, tādige, O. Eng. tadde, now toad, and the root of Gr. πῶλος, Lat. pullus, a young animal, Ger. fohlen, füllen, Eng. foal, filly.] The young of a batrachian animal, especially of a frog, in its first state from the spawn; a porwiggle, purwiggy, polliwig, or polliwog.

An illustration of a tadpole with four legs and a long tail. — Tadpole.