Definitions for imaginal

imaginal i·ma·gi·nal

Spelling: [ih-mey-guh-nl, ih-mah-]
IPA: /ɪˈmeɪ gə nl, ɪˈmɑ-/

Imaginal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in imaginal (aagiilmn).

Definitions for imaginal

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or having the form of an imago.

Origin of imaginal

1875-80; New Latin imāgin-, stem of imāgō imago + -al1

Examples for imaginal

Hence we understand that the amputation of the latter by the old naturalists truncated only and did not destroy the imaginal limb.

Here the imaginal stage only is omitted from the life-history.

Discota: insects in which development of the adults is from imaginal discs: see adiscota.

(A. Prorsa-Levana), which, like the genus Pyrameis, is entirely based on imaginal characters.

A similar though less extreme shortening of the imaginal life may be noticed in many endopterygote insects.

Oculocephalic: applied to that pair of imaginal buds destined to produce the cephalic region in Hymenoptera.

Front region of Maggot of Blow-fly (Calliphora) showing diagrammatically the imaginal discs, which are shaded.

A curious segmental displacement of the imaginal discs with regard to the larva is noticeable in some Diptera.

Not the wings only, but other structures of the imago, varying in extent in different orders, are formed from the imaginal discs.

Very exceptionally the imaginal stage may be omitted from the life-story altogether.

Word Value for imaginal
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11

Words with friends

15

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