English > larva: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | 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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| Narrower | aphid lion, aphis lion | carnivorous larva of lacewing flies |
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| ascidian tadpole | free-swimming larva of ascidians |
| bladder worm | encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm |
| bot | botfly larva |
| 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 |
| cercaria | tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm |
| doodlebug, ant lion, antlion | The larva of any of several insects |
| grub | A soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects |
| hellgrammiate, dobson | large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly |
| leptocephalus | slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes |
| mealworm | The larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae |
| nymph | A larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) |
| strawworm, jointworm | larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains |
| tadpole, polliwog, pollywog | A larval frog or toad |
| wiggler, wriggler | larva of a mosquito |
| wireworm | wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles |
| Broader | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | A living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
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| Spanish | larva |
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| Catalan | larva |
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| Adjectives | larval | relating to or typical of a larva |
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| larval | immature of its kind |
