larva

Noun

larva (plural larvae)

1. A stage of growth for some insects, in which they are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub after hatching from their egg
2. an animal in the aforementioned stage.
3. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

5 letters in word "larva": A A L R V.

Anagrams of larva:

• arval

• lavra

Words found within larva:

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• Definitions:
• the immature, aquatic, growing stage of the caddis and some other insects. Many species of caddis larva build a protective covering of fine gravel ...
• the newly hatched, immature form of an animal that undergoes metamorphosis, differing markedly in form or appearance from the adult
• (pl. Larvæ)—The first condition of an insect at its issuing from the egg, when it is usually in the form of a grub, caterpillar, or maggot. 107
• A stage in the development of many insects and other organisms including sea urchins and sponges. In sponges, sexual reproduction results in the production of motile ciliated larvae.
• The stage between egg and pupa.
• immature feeding stage of moths, butterflies and sawflies
• The free-living, immature form of an animal which changes structurally when it becomes an adult.
• The immature stage occurring between the egg and pupal stages in the life cycle of insects having complete metamorphosis.
• The worm-like offspring of an insect (plural larvae).
• (plural: larvae). The immature form of insects that develop through the process of complete metamorphosis including egg, several larval stages, pupa, and adult. In mites, the first-stage immature is also called a larva.
• The caterpillar; the long, worm-like stage of the butterfly or moth. It often has an interesting pattern of stripes or patches, and it may have spine-like hairs. It is the feeding and growth stage. As it grows, it sheds its skin four or more times so as to enclose its rapidly growing body.
• (lar - vuh) The newly-hatched, earliest stage of horseshoe crabs (and other animals that undergo one or more molts before becoming adults). Larva usually do not resemble the adult form.
• the first state of an insect subsequent to the egg; it is known by the names maggot, grub, caterpillar, &c.; it is slow, sterile, and voracious ; the old authors called it eruca.
• (more than one = larvae) - An early stage of life for animals that go through metamporphosis (cycle of change). With most insects, larvae hatch from eggs, then become pupae (cocoons), then become adults. With frogs, larvae (tadpoles) hatch from eggs, then slowly turn into frogs (adults). ...
• The second stage of development between egg and pupae of insects that undergo complete metamorphosis.
• An independent embryo stage some animals go through before assuming the characteristics of the adult of the species.
• the second stage of metamorphosis - another term for caterpillar.
• A free-swimming and sometimes feeding stage in the early development of certain animals. Oysters have several larval stages including: trochophore, veliger, and pediveliger. Oyster larvae (plural form of larva) are planktonic.
• The second stage of a Butterflies life.
• The youngest stage of a mollusk after it hatches from the egg.
• immature, wingless stage of insects such as moths, beetles, and flies between the egg and adult stage; also sometimes known as caterpillar or "worm" (plural = larvae).
• A caterpillar; the second stage in the lepidopteran life cycle. The larva is a worm-shaped organism specialized for spectacular growth by means of nearly constant eating. The larva lacks two abilities that the adult will eventually have: flight and reproduction.
• Immature form of an animal.
• a sexually immature juvenile stage of an animal’s life cycle. However, there are a few exceptions, where the larval form never metamorphoses into the adult stage and is sexually mature (neoteny)
• early stage in the life cycle of a parasite, usually wingless and worm-like and usually incapable of reproduction.
• 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
• A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians).
• Larva is a 2005 TV movie about a species of fluke-like parasites that have been mutated after ingesting enhanced cow feed. ...

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