larva

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 102313712)
    is a type of: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
    subtypes:
    • ascidian tadpole - free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord
    • bladder worm - encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm
    • cercaria - tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage
    • wireworm - wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants
    • mealworm - the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae
    • wiggler, wriggler - larva of a mosquito
    • jointworm, strawworm - larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains
    • ant lion, antlion, doodlebug - the larva of any of several insects
    • aphid lion, aphis lion - carnivorous larva of lacewing flies
    • dobson, hellgrammiate - large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait
    • caseworm - insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body
    • caterpillar - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
    • nymph - a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
    • leptocephalus - slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes
    • bot - botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
    • grub - a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
    • polliwog, pollywog, tadpole - a larval frog or toad

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