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Larval   /lˈɑrvəl/   Listen
Larval

adjective
1.
Immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage.  "Larval crayfishes" , "The larval stage"
2.
Relating to or typical of a larva.






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"Larval" Quotes from Famous Books



... neither among them nor among those writers who are peculiarly the delight of the spuriously literate: Sallust, who is less colorless than the others; sentimental and pompous Titus Livius; turgid and lurid Seneca; watery and larval Suetonius; Tacitus who, in his studied conciseness, is the keenest, most wiry and muscular of them all. In poetry, he was untouched by Juvenal, despite some roughshod verses, and by Persius, despite his mysterious insinuations. In neglecting ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... starfish alive make these pictures of particular value, especially as they were taken of the living forms swimming in their natural element. Each day and almost each hour adds to the complexity of the little animal, lung tentacles grow out and many other larval stages are passed through before the starfish shape is discernible within this curious "nurse" or living, changing egg. Then the entire mass, so elaborately evolved through so long a time, is absorbed and the little baby star sinks to the ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... particularly the larger beetles, have the habit of passing their larval state in the under earth. Here they generally excavate burrows, and thus in a way delve the soil. As many of them die before reaching maturity, their store of organic matter is contributed to the mass, ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler



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