Word Meanings - LARVA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: LARVA

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LARVA)

• Spectre
• Apparition
• ghost
• shade
• shadow
• spirit
• larva

Related words: (words related to LARVA)

• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• GHOSTLESS
  Without life or spirit.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• GHOSTOLOGY
  Ghost lore. It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• APPARITIONAL
  Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• SPIRITUAL
  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv.
• GHOSTLINESS
  The quality of being ghostly.
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• SPIRITOUS
  1. Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure. More refined, more spirituous and pure. Milton. 2. Ardent; active.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.