Associations to the word «Larva»

Wiktionary

LARVA, noun. 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.
LARVA, noun. An animal in the aforementioned stage.
LARVA, noun. A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

Dictionary definition

LARVA, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats