In primary school Science (Life Cycles of Animals), you learn about how different creatures grow. The word Tadpole refers to a very specific stage in the life of amphibians, particularly frogs.
The word 'Tadpole' comes from Middle English words: 'Tadde' (meaning toad) and 'Poll' (meaning head). Literally, it translates to 'a toad that is mostly just a head'!
The literal translation of Tadpole is: मेंढक का बच्चा (Mendhak ka baccha)
Sometimes, in pure biological Hindi texts, it is also called भेकाभ (Bhekabh), but 'Mendhak ka baccha' is universally understood.
A tadpole is the aquatic (water-living), larval stage of a frog or a toad. When a frog's egg hatches in a pond, it does not look like a frog at all. It looks like a tiny black fish with a large round head and a long tail. This is the tadpole.
As the tadpole grows, a magical transformation happens (called Metamorphosis). It slowly grows back legs, then front legs. Its tail shrinks and disappears, its gills are replaced by lungs, and it finally jumps out of the water as an adult frog!
Most amphibians (like frogs, toads, and salamanders) go through an aquatic tadpole/larval stage. However, a few species of frogs give birth to tiny fully-formed frogs, bypassing the swimming tadpole stage entirely.
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