tadpolish

English

Etymology

tadpole +‎ -ish

Adjective

tadpolish (comparative more tadpolish, superlative most tadpolish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a tadpole.
   • 1912, Arthur Bullard, Panama: the canal, the country and the people:

     The swampy pools, such as the jungle abounds in, seem to be her ideal. The eggs in due course of time hatch out into tiny tadpolish larvae.

   • 2004, Claire Golomb, The child's creation of a pictorial world, page 306:

     In the case of the human figure, the lowest level of the scale represents a global or tadpolish figure...

Synonyms

• tadpoley