tadpolehood en · NOUN
Etymology
From tadpole + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or period of being a tadpole.
A permanent resident of the pond, he took three years of tadpolehood to grow to his present six-inch length.
1961, LIFE, volume 51, number 8, page 80:Whereas Mrs. Surinam Toad's little fellows have to spend all their tadpolehood in their mamma's dark little pockets, with no freedom and no society; […]
1886, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet, page 136: