the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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larva::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | animate being, beast, fauna, brute, creature, animal |
| Has types | bladder worm, bot, caseworm, caterpillar, cercaria, dobson, doodlebug, grub, hellgrammiate, jointworm, leptocephalus, mealworm, nymph, polliwog, pollywog, strawworm, tadpole, wiggler, wireworm, wriggler, ant lion, antlion, aphid lion, aphis lion, ascidian tadpole |
| Derivation | larval |
Examples of larva
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The horse chestnut trees in front of my home are infested with miner moth larva.
From the guardian.co.uk
Each oocyst produces a small ciliated larva which makes its way to another star.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It is thought that the larva develop in ant-nests where they feed on root aphids.
From the guardian.co.uk
From the tip of the abdomen of stonefly larva you'll see two tail-like filaments.
From the post-gazette.com
After eating the prey, the larva affixes the remains of the carcass to its bag.
From the sciencedaily.com
The larva of G. apterus makes a cocoon inside the spider igloo before pupation.
From the sciencedaily.com
The larva, also called the volto mask, is mainly white, and typically Venetian.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The larva of this nasty little bug burrows into an olive and eats it from within.
From the theatlantic.com
This causes the worm to discharge many of its larva, making it less infectious.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
- (larval) immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage; "larval societies"; "larval crayfishes"; "the larval stage"
- A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. Larva is Latin for "ghost."
- Larva is a 2005 Science Fiction-Horror film, directed by Tim Cox, written from Kenneth M. Badish, Boaz Davidson, David Goodin, Kevin Moore, J. Paul V. Robert and T.M. Van Ostrand. It stars Vincent Ventresca, Rachel Hunter and William Forsythe.
- (Larvae (Roman religion)) In Roman mythology, lemures (singular lemur) were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of larvae (sing. larva = mask) as disturbing or frightening. ...
- A stage of growth for some insects, in which they are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub after hatching from their egg; An animal in the aforementioned stage; A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage
- (Larvae) The immature form of many animals, which hatches from the egg and often differs in appearance from the adult form.
- (larvae) immature wingless forms of insects such as mosquitoes.
- (Larvae) the young of any invertebrate animal
