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Larval   /lˈɑrvəl/   Listen
Larval

adjective
1.
Immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage.  "Larval crayfishes" , "The larval stage"
2.
Relating to or typical of a larva.






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"Larval" Quotes from Famous Books



... likewise the region of savage warfare." Some species live solely by war and plunder. Polyergus rufescens (Huber's "amazon") disdains work, and has indeed lost the power. The members of this species live as slave-owners, served, tended, fed, by troops of slaves, the latter being recruited (in the larval or pupal stage) by slave raids upon ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland

... sea-cucumber undergo similar changes. (See fig. 5.) So also does the beautiful rosy feather-star, but with certain modifications too interesting to be passed over. In what we call its larval body, or its period of childhood, the body takes the form of a cylinder, as you see in the picture, with a little tuft of swimming hairs at the bottom, and bands of the same round the body (fig. 6.) Within ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various



Words linked to "Larval" :   larva, immature



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