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| a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects | |||
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| a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) | |||
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| 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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| relating to or typical of a larva | |||
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| immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage |