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      Larva | Definition, Forms, & Facts | Britannica
      • larva, stage in the development of many animals, occurring after birth or hatching and before the adult form is reached. These immature, active forms are structurally different from the adults and are adapted to a different environment.
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  2. LARVA definition: 1. a form of an insect or an animal such as a frog that has left its egg but has not yet developed…. Learn more.

  3. Sep 2, 2024 · larva, stage in the development of many animals, occurring after birth or hatching and before the adult form is reached. These immature, active forms are structurally different from the adults and are adapted to a different environment.

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    A larva (/ ˈlɑːrvə /; pl.: larvae / ˈlɑːrviː /) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage. Animals with indirect development such as insects, some arachnids, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle.

    Animal
    Name Of Larvae
    Porifera (sponges)
    coeloblastula (= blastula, ...
    Wagener's larva
    infusoriform larva
    planula (= stereogastrula), actinula
  5. The word larva is applied to the young of certain animals that must undergo great physical changes before they become adults. A young frog hatches from the egg as a water-living tadpole and gradually becomes transformed into the air-breathing adult.

  6. The meaning of LARVA is the immature, wingless, and often wormlike feeding form that hatches from the egg of many insects, alters chiefly in size while passing through several molts, and is finally transformed into a pupa or chrysalis from which the adult emerges. How to use larva in a sentence.

  7. Animal development - Larval, Metamorphosis, Growth: The organism emerging from the egg or from the maternal body, apart from being incompletely developed, may have an organization more or less different from that of an adult.

  8. Animal development, the processes that lead eventually to the formation of a new animal starting from cells derived from one or more parent individuals. Development thus occurs following the process by which a new generation of organisms is produced by the parent generation.

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