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LARVAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage
Example:
the larval stage
Classified under:
Similar:
immature (not yet mature)
Derivation:
larva (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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or typical of a larva
Example:
the larval eye
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
larva (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)
Derivation:
larva (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)
