Word Meanings - LARVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A larva.

Related words: (words related to LARVE)

• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• 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
• LARVATE
  Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.
• LARVATED
  Masked; clothed as with a mask.
• LARVALIA
  An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia.
• LOEVEN'S LARVA
  The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.