Larva is an English word with synonyms like animal or beast. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Larva meaning
- 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.
- An animal in the aforementioned stage.
- A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
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Using Larva
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | An animal in the aforementioned stage. | A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
- Useful related words include: animal, animate being, beast, brute.
- Possible Dutch translations are: larve.
- In the example corpus, larva often appears in combinations such as: the larva, mosquito larva, larva of.
Context around Larva
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Larva
- In this selection, "larva" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mosquito, fly, bipinnaria, connectome, feeds and nymph stand out and add context to how "larva" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bipinnaria larva but this and a mosquito larva seen through. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "larva" sits close to words such as agonizing, allocates and alves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with larva
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After the last instar, the mosquito larva becomes pupa. (9 words)
Many also come with the ability to deploy larva-esque bombs. (11 words)
The intricate ‘mouth brushes’ of a mosquito larva seen through interference contrast microscopy. (13 words)
Winter moth larva, which feed on tree leaves, blueberry crops and orchards, have been responsible for the defoliation of tens of thousands of acres along the New England coast each year since the early 2000s. (35 words)
The DNR has announced that both Lake of the Woods and Red Lake have zebra mussels larva (veligers) present in the system, and the lakes have been added to the infested waters list. (33 words)
We get a glimpse at how the beetles got into his system, someone took larva out of the beetle with a syringe and injected into a glass of wine that the man drank. (33 words)
A new season of hilariously zany adventures for larva pals Red and Yellow includes an invasion of their island! (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
In order to build a picture of the fruit fly larva connectome, researchers scanned thousands of slices of the larva’s brain.
The exoskeletons of a normal mosquito larva on the left and a mosquito larva with the gooseberry gene edited out on the right.
A starfish has a 'bipinnaria' larva but this later develops into a multi-armed 'brachiolaria' larva.
It is unknown how the coleom forms, since the metamorphosis from larva to adult destroys all of the larva's internal tissues.
The pupa is less active than the larva because it does not feed, whereas the larva feeds constantly.
Scientists have created detailed maps of the brain of a fruit fly, which is much more complex than a fruit fly larva.
Feeding times are brief and each stage (larva, nymph adult) will feed several times as they develop.
Monarch butterflies rely soley on milkweed as a host plant for their eggs and larva.
What the insects and their larva need to survive are native plants, which have developed alongside them and the birds for thousands of years.
After the last instar, the mosquito larva becomes pupa.
The DNR has announced that both Lake of the Woods and Red Lake have zebra mussels larva (veligers) present in the system, and the lakes have been added to the infested waters list.
The intricate ‘mouth brushes’ of a mosquito larva seen through interference contrast microscopy.
The larva spins a chrysalis and is destroyed in the process of becoming a butterfly.
A new season of hilariously zany adventures for larva pals Red and Yellow includes an invasion of their island!
Between the nothing of bare earth and the next set of weeds is a hungry caterpillar, weary bee, or a sawfly larva with nothing to eat.
Many also come with the ability to deploy larva-esque bombs.
Using a single insect larva retrieved from the scene and photographs of the body after it was removed from the tank, he identified the common blow fly of the Calliphoridae family.
We get a glimpse at how the beetles got into his system, someone took larva out of the beetle with a syringe and injected into a glass of wine that the man drank.
She's a powerful being, both in terms of the adult's physical force and the larva of the species; Godzilla was once defeated by them encasing the lizard in a cocoon.
Winter moth larva, which feed on tree leaves, blueberry crops and orchards, have been responsible for the defoliation of tens of thousands of acres along the New England coast each year since the early 2000s.
Common combinations with larva
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the larva 29×
- mosquito larva 5×
- larva of 4×
- larva which 4×
- larva is 4×
- fly larva 3×
- larva with 3×
- larva in 3×
- from larva 2×
- larva to 2×