Larva: alternatives and connections

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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winged insect resembling a dragonfly; the larvae (doodlebugs) dig conical pits where they wait to catch e.g. ants

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The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvae of the ladybugs (Coccinella…

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See Bots.

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A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

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The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which…

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The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

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The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

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To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

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The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the…

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A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

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A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.

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A polliwig.

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A caddice worm.

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The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a…

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The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail.

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One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument…

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One who, or that which, wriggles.

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Of or pertaining to a larva.

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Of or pertaining to a larva.

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