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Pollywog/polliwog

Spanish translation: renacuajo


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English term or phrase:Pollywog/polliwog
Spanish translation:renacuajo
Entered by: Robert Mota
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02:55 Aug 6, 2008
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Art/Literary - Education / Pedagogy
English term or phrase: Pollywog/polliwog
He could be there for eight hours capturing pollywogs, poking insects, collecting sticks, happily carried along on the pulse of creation.

Sé que es como un insecto de agua, pero no sé cómo se dice en Español, por favor, si alguien puede darme una ayudita. Gracias.
Robert Mota
Local time: 00:37
renacuajo
Explanation:
Es exactamente eso: está en los diccionarios.
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Paula Tizzano Fernández
Local time: 01:37
Grading comment
conocía tadpole hehehe, mil gracias, pero nunca había oído polliwog. Mil gracias.
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5 +7renacuajo
Paula Tizzano Fernández
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
pollywog/polliwog
renacuajo


Explanation:
Es exactamente eso: está en los diccionarios.


    Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/polliwog
Paula Tizzano Fernández
Local time: 01:37
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
conocía tadpole hehehe, mil gracias, pero nunca había oído polliwog. Mil gracias.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elizabeth Medina: Agree.
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agree  Henry Hinds
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agree  Kate Major: yep.
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agree  Egmont
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  -> ¡Gracias!

agree  Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
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  -> ¡Gracias, Bea!

agree  JuliDS
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agree  Laura D
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Reference comments


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Reference

Reference information:
Insecto no es; es la forma larval de los anfibios.
Otro nombre común es "tadpole".


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole
GoodWords
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 91

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Daniel Burns: I always heard that the distinction is that pollywogs develop into toads and tadpoles into frogs.
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