frogpole

Noun

1. A young frog in the stage of development after tadpole and before froglet.
   • Tadpoles and frogs were my next fancy; the intermediate stage known in the family as "frogpole" pleased me most. - 1970, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 307, William Blackwood, page 547:
   • Since it could not feed because its digestive tract was incompletely transformed, its life as a “frogpole" lasted only a few weeks. - 1972, William Etkin, Robert M. Devlin, Thomas G. Bouffard, A Biology of Human...
   • They determined different visual pigments in three developmental stages: in the tadpole (no matter whether legless or with hindlegs and almost fully developed forelegs), in the frogpole (the stage of almost completed...