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Definition of larva
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of larva is as below...
Larva (n.) 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,
et
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Appendicularia
::
Appendicularia
(n.) A genus of small
free-swimming
Tunicata,
shaped
somewhat
like a
tadpole,
and
remarkable
for
resemblances
to the
larvae
of other
Tunicata.
It is the type of the order
Copelata
or
Larvalia.
See
Illustration
in
Appendix..
Fireworm
::
Fireworm
(n.) The larva of a small
tortricid
moth which eats the
leaves
of the
cranberry,
so that the vines look as if
burned;
--
called
also
cranberry
worm..
Taintworm
::
Taintworm
(n.) A
destructive
parasitic
worm or
insect
larva.
Bookworm
::
Bookworm
(n.) Any larva of a
beetle
or moth, which is
injurious
to
books.
Many
species
are
known..
Polygordius
::
Polygordius
(n.) A genus of
marine
annelids,
believed
to be an
ancient
or
ancestral
type. It is
remarkable
for its
simplicity
of
structure
and want of
parapodia.
It is the type of the order
Archiannelida,
or
Gymnotoma.
See
Loeven's
larva..
Gid
::
Gid (a.) A
disease
of
sheep,
characterized
by
vertigo;
the
staggers.
It is
caused
by the
presence
of the
C/nurus,
a
larval
tapeworm,
in the
brain.
See
C/nurus..
Girdler
::
Girdler
(n.) An
American
longicorn
beetle
(Oncideres
cingulatus)
which lays its eggs in the twigs of the
hickory,
and then
girdles
each
branch
by
gnawing
a
groove
around
it, thus
killing
it to
provide
suitable
food for the
larvae..
Hopper
::
Hopper
(n.) The larva of a
cheese
fly.
Dermestes
::
Dermestes
(n.) A genus of
coleopterous
insects,
the
larvae
of which feed
animal
substances.
They are very
destructive
to dries
meats,
skins,
woolens,
and furs. The most
common
species
is D.
lardarius,
known as the bacon
beetle..
Homomorphism
::
Homomorphism
(n.) The
possession
of but one kind of
larvae
or
young,
as in most
insects..
Roller
::
Roller
(n.) ANy
insect
whose larva rolls up
leaves;
a leaf
roller.
see
Tortrix.
Larviform
::
Larviform
(a.)
Having
the form or
structure
of a
larva.
Horntail
::
Horntail
(n.) Any one of
family
(Uroceridae)
of large
hymenopterous
insects,
allied
to the
sawflies.
The
larvae
bore in the wood of
trees.
So
called
from the long, stout
ovipositors
of the
females..
Roseworm
::
Roseworm
(n.) The larva of any one of
several
species
of
lepidopterous
insects
which feed upon the
leaves,
buds, or
blossoms
of the rose,
especially
Cacaecia
rosaceana,
which rolls up the
leaves
for a nest, and
devours
both the
leaves
and
buds..
Eristalis
::
Eristalis
(n.) A genus of
dipterous
insects
whose young
(called
rat-tailed
larvae)
are
remarkable
for their long
tapering
tail, which
spiracles
at the tip, and for their
ability
to live in very
impure
and salt
waters;
-- also
called
drone fly..
Redia
::
Redia (n.) A kind of
larva,
or
nurse,
which is
prroduced
within
the
sporocyst
of
certain
trematodes
by
asexual
generation.
It in turn
produces,
in the same way,
either
another
generation
of
rediae,
or else
cercariae
within
its own body.
Called
also
proscolex,
and
nurse.
See
Illustration
in
Appendix..
Amphibiotica
::
Amphibiotica
(n. pl.) A
division
of
insects
having
aquatic
larvae.
Otter
::
Otter (n.) The larva of the ghost moth. It is very
injurious
to hop
vines.
Telotrochous
::
Telotrochous
(a.)
Having
both a
preoral
and a
posterior
band of
cilla;
--
applied
to the
larvae
of
certain
annelids.
Metamere
::
Metamere
(n.) One of
successive
or
homodynamous
parts in
animals
and
plants;
one of a
series
of
similar
parts that
follow
one
another
in a
vertebrate
or
articulate
animal,
as in an
earthworm;
a
segment;
a
somite.
See
Illust.
of
Loeven's
larva..
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