"tadpole person" meaning in English

See tadpole person in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tadpole people [plural]
Etymology: The term refers to the absence of a torso that is clearly differentiated from the head or legs, which is common to real tadpoles and drawings of tadpole people. Head templates: {{en-noun|tadpole people}} tadpole person (plural tadpole people)
  1. A primitive human figure drawn with the legs directly attached to the head, especially as drawn by small children. Categories (topical): Children Synonyms: headfooter Translations (Translations): kopvoeter [masculine] (Dutch), koppoter [masculine] (Dutch), Kopffüßler [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-tadpole_person-en-noun-uzBaiH3W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for tadpole person meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "The term refers to the absence of a torso that is clearly differentiated from the head or legs, which is common to real tadpoles and drawings of tadpole people.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tadpole people",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tadpole people"
      },
      "expansion": "tadpole person (plural tadpole people)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Children",
          "orig": "en:Children",
          "parents": [
            "Youth",
            "Age",
            "People",
            "Human",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A primitive human figure drawn with the legs directly attached to the head, especially as drawn by small children."
      ],
      "id": "en-tadpole_person-en-noun-uzBaiH3W",
      "links": [
        [
          "primitive",
          "primitive"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "figure",
          "figure"
        ],
        [
          "draw",
          "draw"
        ],
        [
          "leg",
          "leg"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "children",
          "children"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "headfooter"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kopvoeter"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "koppoter"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Kopffüßler"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tadpole person"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "The term refers to the absence of a torso that is clearly differentiated from the head or legs, which is common to real tadpoles and drawings of tadpole people.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tadpole people",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tadpole people"
      },
      "expansion": "tadpole person (plural tadpole people)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Children"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A primitive human figure drawn with the legs directly attached to the head, especially as drawn by small children."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "primitive",
          "primitive"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "figure",
          "figure"
        ],
        [
          "draw",
          "draw"
        ],
        [
          "leg",
          "leg"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "children",
          "children"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "headfooter"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kopvoeter"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "koppoter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kopffüßler"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tadpole person"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.