larva means 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. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 78 out of 100.
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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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”