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larval

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Word definitions for larval in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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" relating to or typical of a larva; "the larval eye"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to a larva or larvae. 2 Being a larva. 3 Characteristic of larvae. 4 Having the form or shape of a larva. 5 (qualifier: disease) Undeveloped, latent.

Usage examples of larval.

In this last and complete state, cirripedes may be considered as either more highly or more lowly organised than they were in the larval condition.

If this larval and spectral world, where the platitudinous and the absurd swarm in even greater abundance than on earth, affords us some notion of the state of the soul when separated from the body, then I shall doubtless pass my eternity in regretting the exquisite control which our senses now provide, and the adjusted perspectives offered by human reason.

Senexi ate in their larval youth, but the freeth were not green and sedentary.

The surplus value accumulation of larval feeding gives way to lavish expenditure: the extravagant coloration of the butterflies, the coprophilic copulation of houseflies and others.

Once each cell nears completion, the female wasp forages around the garden for caterpillars and other tiny creatures, which she paralyses with a sting and then puts in the cell for the larval wasp to eat.

The larva hung in that terrible grip, its slack meat like a moon above us that dwindled as we watched, while its rich larval sap drizzled and spattered down to the stone before us.

These are not larval raffins fleeing your toy spear in a hunt, but armed stalwarts of King Voltrik shielded by the enchantment of a black-hearted sorcerer.

The lithivorous ferrecks used to dowse for larval chambers, and then used to sink the first shafts down to those larval chambers, are creatures akin to certain brood parasites within Behemoth nests, and are both fierce and highly dangerous to manage.

They know of your eventual emergence—we've told them you'll be bringing up larval scrapings, for sale to the perfumeries of the Great Shallows.

These piecemealed prey were sometimes still conscious, and gave voice, cackling and jabbering as they were borne to their doom in a larval gut.

The sucking larval jaws now scissored quite close to him from either side.

The Weft, a Fleet guard at the depot, had been shot in the burglary and survived only by shapechanging into the Ssli tank in a larval form.