🇬🇧🇪🇸 tadpole - renacuajo : English Lesson

Meaning of "tadpole" ("renacuajo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A tadpole is a baby frog that lives in water, has a round head, a long wiggly tail, no legs yet, and slowly grows into a hopping frog.

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My brother said my tadpole was ugly, so now the tadpole and I have both blocked him.

When the tadpole finally grew tiny legs, he looked like a bean with training wheels.

The tadpole practiced for frog life by wiggling up to the surface and staring dramatically into the distance.

I tried to teach my tadpole to fetch, but he just wiggled away like a tiny slippery noodle.

A tadpole breathes with gills like a fish at first, then grows lungs so it can live on land as a frog.

At the pond a child spotted a tadpole darting. The tadpole's big head bobbed above water and its long tail flicked below. A second tadpole nudged it; a third tadpole joined and they chased round a stone. One tadpole leapt to a wet leaf, slipped, splashed, then lay still beside the rock. The child clapped, delighted.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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