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UK
/lˈɑːvəl/
]
[ US /ˈɫɑɹvəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑɹvəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or typical of a larva
the larval eye -
immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage
larval crayfishes
larval societies
the larval stage
How To Use larval In A Sentence
- The name krill derives from ‘kril’, an Old Norwegian word once applied to tiny creepy-crawly things, vermin, and larval fish.
- Phytoplankton are critical for feeding larval fish.
- A pupa covered by the hardened 3rd larval skin is known as a coarctate pupa..
- Where Ancylostoma is also endemic, differential diagnosis may require larval culture although the treatment is similar.
- Young amphibians, like the larval frog or tadpole pictured here, spend their early years in the water, breathing through gills in the side of their head in much the same way as fish do.
- The mesh bags are an easy way to move cultch to the right place and time for larval settlement.
- With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
- The first larval stage is called a zoea and, as a zoea, they will go through seven molts. Homepage
- Even remnants of last meals were preserved, such as the bellyful of shrimp fossilized inside one 8-centimeter-long larval salamander.
- They also go through a second larval stage called the veliger stage, which is also a free-swimming stage. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]