LARVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does larval mean? 

• LARVAL (adjective)
  The adjective LARVAL has 2 senses:

1. immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage

2. relating to or typical of a larva

  Familiarity information: LARVAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARVAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage

Context example:

the larval stage

Similar:

immature (not yet mature)

Derivation:

larva (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or typical of a larva

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the larval eye

Pertainym:

larva (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)

Derivation:

larva (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)

 Context examples 

A parasitic infection caused by the larval form of Taenia solium.

(Cysticercosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Infection with CYSTICERCUS, a larval form of the various tapeworms of the genus Taenia (usually T. solium in man).

(Cysticercosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

After three days, when the eggs hatch and the larval stage begins, the capsules release thymol (the active substance) into the water.

(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)

Moreover, under elevated CO2 conditions, larval barramundi were attracted to the wrong sounds.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)