Definitions
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- adjective shaped in the form of a tadpole
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Examples
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It's decorated with dozens of smiling tadpole-shaped creatures homing in on the words with cheerful intent.
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Viewers get to experience an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, swooping through a giant canyon of gas and dust, and witness star-forming regions that include dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems, likely a vision of how our own solar system once looked.
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Where are the tadpole-shaped semen bullets, or am I taking the concept too far?
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The microscopical, tadpole-shaped young penetrate into the bodies of insects frequenting damp localities.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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For example, the little tadpole-shaped figure on the clay baskets used in their dances and sacred ceremonies by the Zuñians is understood by them to represent a little water articulate, which, as heretofore stated, is probably the larva of some insect or crustacean, very common in the pools and sluggish streams of the country inhabited by these Indians.
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The tadpole-shaped, 91-acre 37-hectare Pag-asa, or 'hope' in the Tagalog language, is the biggest of the Philippine-held islands in the South China Sea's Spratlys archipelago.
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The tadpole-shaped, 91-acre 37-hectare Pag-asa, or 'hope' in the Tagalog language, is the biggest of the Philippine-held islands in the South China Sea's Spratlys archipelago.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The tadpole-shaped, 91-acre 37-hectare Pag-asa, or 'hope' in the Tagalog language, is the biggest of the Philippine-held islands in the South China Sea's Spratlys archipelago.
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It is called the Tadpole nebula because the masses of hot, young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and Sim 130.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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'The problem is that this condition is painless, so the first people know about it is when they get blurred vision, flashing lights or floaters - little tadpole-shaped black flecks that drift around inside your vision - caused by bleeding from the tear.'
Home | Mail Online 2010
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