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n. The newly hatched, wingless, often wormlike form of many insects before metamorphosis.

n. The newly hatched, earliest stage of any of various animals that undergo metamorphosis, differing markedly in form and appearance from the adult.

n. Roman Mythology A malevolent spirit of the dead; a lemur.

n. 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 ressemble fish.

n. An animal in the aforementioned stage.

n. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

n. Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvæ are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.

n. The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape.

n. In Roman mythology, a ghost; a specter; a shade: generally in the plural. Compare Lar, 1.

n. In zoology:

n. The early form of any animal which during its development is unlike its parent: thus the tadpole, the larva of the frog, is unlike the frog.

n. A genus of mollusks.

n. A genus of birds: same as Alca.

n. 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

"The larva of the Meloidæ, before reaching the nymphal state, passes through four forms, which I call the _primary larva_, the _secondary larva_, the _pseudochrysalis_ and the _tertiary larva_."

larva pupigera    mitraria larva    desor's larva    rat-tailed larva    painter's-easel larva    cornute larva    müller's larva    queen larva    lovèn's larva    phantom larva   

larvae   

caterpillars    grubs    maggots   

caterpillar    grub    hopper    worm    flyblow    cankerworm    looper    scolex    slugworm    slug   

caterpillar    grub    beetle    pupa    grasshopper    insect    snail    maggot    moth    termite