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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A tadpole; -- called also
purwiggy andporwigle .
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- noun Variant of
polliwog .
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These consist of little polliwig-shaped bodies (Fig. 3), having large heads and long filaments or tails.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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