Larva is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LARVA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an animal in an immature but active state
• the active immature form of an insect, especially one that differs greatly from the adult and forms the stage between egg and pupa, e.g. a caterpillar or grub.
• an immature form of other animals that undergo some metamorphosis, e.g. a tadpole.
• immature insect
• 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 larvae 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 larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.
• The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the immature form of various insects and animals when newly hatched

Words related to LARVA

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Words that contain LARVA

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How to use LARVA in a sentence

• Como al tender el vuelo hacia la altura, 20 Deja su larva impura El insecto en el caliz de las flores.
• The larva is white to very pale green, the fly is shining tawny.
• The larva of one such deceptive insect, observed in Nicaragua by sharp-eyed Mr.
• The newly-hatched insect is externally so unlike its parent that it may be styled a larva.
• The intestine of the butterfly also is longer than that of the larva, being coiled or twisted.
• In connection with this life-history we notice that the newly-hatched larva is not in the neighbourhood of its appropriate food.
• With other species we find that the larva becomes fully grown in autumn, yet lives through the winter without further change.
• With most insects, however, the larva must be regarded as the more specially modified, even if degraded, stage.
• This structure disappears in the larva only to reappear in a reduced form in later stages.
• We cannot go back, any more than the butterfly can again become a larva.
• Within a week the transition from larva to butterfly took place in the young, handsome, and clever Charles-Edouard, Comte Rusticoli de la Palferine.
• Humanity had evidently deposited its larva in the vicinity.
• Any change in the embryo or larva will almost certainly entail changes in the mature animal.
• Natural selection may modify and adapt the larva of an insect to a score of contingencies, wholly different from those which concern the mature insect.
• The larva lying chained to the four pillars still rattled in its throat.

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