larva

CEFRB2

/ˈlɑː.və/

noun

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01
noun
A young insect or other animal before it becomes an adult.
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noun
Extra detail
A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

An animal in the aforementioned stage.
An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.

In context

The life cycle of an amphibian consists of three stages: egg, larva and adult.
The habits of the second nymphal stage are likewise similar to those of the larva stage.
What does a mountain newt larva eat?

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The habits of the second nymphal stage are likewise similar to those of the larva stage.
1923, Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 6
Several possible explanations are advanced for a large decrease in numbers between the egg and larva stage, namely, drift of larvae from the sampling station, escape through the meshes of the net, sinking below the surface layers, and loss from mortality. A seasonally erratic egg to larva ratio is pointed out.
1954, Contribution - Hawaii Marine Laboratory, page 186
The young larva bores into the tissue of a tobacco leaf, usually near the place where it has emerged from the egg, in cases where the egg was laid on a leaf, and mines into the leaf.
1920, Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, page 84
What does a mountain newt larva eat?
2020, Anne Sagner, Ichthy, diary of a newt larva, page 4
In water of 5-6° C, herring hatch in about 22 days, at 11-12° C in 8–10 days. The newly hatched larva is about 6–8 mm long and at first depends on the food reserves of the yolk-sac.
1968, R. V. Tait, F. A. Dipper, Elements of Marine Ecology, page 344

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From Latin larva (“disembodied spirit, ghost, goblin”).