English noun: larva |
1. | larva (animal) the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose |
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| Broader (hypernym) | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ant lion, antlion, aphid lion, aphis lion, ascidian tadpole, bladder worm, bot, caseworm, caterpillar, cercaria, dobson, doodlebug, grub, hellgrammiate, jointworm, leptocephalus, mealworm, nymph, polliwog, pollywog, strawworm, tadpole, wiggler, wireworm, wriggler |
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