Larva
Of 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.
This concept's ID is @1~12040
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- caterpillar
A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or mo...
- grub
A soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
- caseworm
Insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body.
- aphid lion
Carnivorous larva of lacewing flies.
- wiggler
Larva of a mosquito.
- bladder worm
Encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm.
- dobson
Large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait.
- nymph
A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly).
- ascidian tadpole
Free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains...
- leptocephalus
Slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes.
- bot
Botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human.
- cercaria
Tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage.
- tadpole
A larval frog or toad.
- mealworm
The larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae.
- strawworm
Larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains.
- wireworm
Wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants.
- ant lion
The larva of any of several insects.