1. Noun
Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
2. Noun
A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
3. Noun
an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
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