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A larva is the young form of an insect that will later grow wings — a soft, often tube-shaped body that eats and grows, before it changes. A is the larva of a butterfly or moth. A is the larva of a fly. A grub is often the larva of a beetle. This is the crawling, hungry stage. Later it may become a (the still, changing stage), then the adult. Though actually, not every young insect is a larva. Insects that change a little at a time, like , have nymphs, which already look somewhat like the adult. People also stretch larva to other animals with a young form that does not look like the adult, such as a . The Latin word meant a ghost or : the true animal is still hidden. One is a larva; more than one are larvae.
組成Does not split. From Latin larva, meaning a disembodied spirit, ghost, or goblin — the true insect still hidden, like a spirit in a disguise.
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- larvalthe adjective: the larval stage is this young form
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larvanoun/ˈlɑː.və/
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An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
- The habits of the second nymphal stage are likewise similar to those of the larva stage.
- Several possible explanations are advanced for a large decrease in numbers between the egg and larva stage, namely, drift of larvae from the sampling station, escape through the meshes of the net, sinking below the surface layers, and loss from mortality. A seasonally erratic egg to larva ratio is pointed out.
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An animal in the aforementioned stage.
- The young larva bores into the tissue of a tobacco leaf, usually near the place where it has emerged from the egg, in cases where the egg was laid on a leaf, and mines into the leaf.
- What does a mountain newt larva eat?
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A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
- In water of 5-6° C, herring hatch in about 22 days, at 11-12° C in 8–10 days. The newly hatched larva is about 6–8 mm long and at first depends on the food reserves of the yolk-sac.
- Breeding females of both the Lophogastrida and Mysida carry their embryos and larvae in a marsupium, within which their entire embryonic and larval development takes place.
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A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.
- In the fourteenth we find, but still in Latin, a quasi-historical drama, in the larva stage of monologue recitation, founded on a subject from the national annals—that of Ezzelino, tyrant-duke of Padua.
- Man's larva stage is first announced by strong pathetic squalls; — Conscious knowledge of his helplessness, — dependency, appalls, — Evokes maternal sympathy,— for him she will provide,— Most proud mother, happy parent, as he nestles by her side.
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