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pollywog

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pol·ly·wog  (pl-wg, -wôg)
n.
Variant of polliwog.
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Noun1.pollywog - a larval frog or toadpollywog - a larval frog or toad                
polliwog, tadpole
amphibia, class Amphibia - the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians
larva - the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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