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larval

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A record would spend years in larval form as an acetate, the big waxy master from which copies were made.

Except perhaps an injunction to my fellow emergent adults: remember your larval years!

The larval stage is passed in the muscles of various animals, especially cattle, where it lies encysted (cysticercus stage).

The length of the larval stage varies from fifteen to twenty-five days with an average of twenty days.

The people, largely farmers, become infected with a larval stage of the hookworm, which develops in moist earth.

Oryctes, Cetoniae and Anoxiae in the larval state: here then is the prey of the three Scoliae whose habits we know.

A larval specimen with small gills has a snout-vent length of 72 mm.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to larval, such as: elemental, elementary, embryonic, primitive, simple, and abecedarian.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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