Noun
The hooded merganser.
The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen the tail of the tadpole drops off, it can live both in water and on land. When the tail of delusive ignorance drops off from man, he becomes free. He can then live in God and the world equally well. Ramakrishna
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog. Algernon Charles Swinburne
... you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being. Brian Tracy
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. William S. Burroughs
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog. Toni Braxton
The frog forgets that he was once a tadpole. Korean Proverb