Definitions for larvas

larvas lar·va

Spelling: [lahr-vuh]
IPA: /ˈlɑr və/

Larvas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in larvas (aalrsv).

Definitions for larvas

noun

  1. Entomology. the immature, wingless, feeding stage of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis.
  2. any animal in an analogous immature form.
  3. the young of any invertebrate animal.
  4. larvae, Roman Antiquity. malignant ghosts, as lemures.

Origin of larvas

1645-55; New Latin; special use of Latin larva a ghost, specter, mask, skeleton; akin to Lares

Examples for larvas

It is evidently the work of the bee herself, and is not secreted and laid on by the larva.

Laemodipodiform: like a laemodipod; similar to the larva of a walking stick.

Pre-pupal: that stage in the larva just preceding the change to pupa.

The larva when grown was at least four times as long as the egg.

larva (plural larvæ): the young or immature form of an insect.

When summer comes, adult beetles attack and larva feed in the cambium layer, girdling the trees and sealing their doom.

The larva, or "worm," soon hatches and eats its way into the apple.

Pleopoda: abdominal legs of larva: posterior legs of an adult.

larvarium: a tube or case made by a larva as a shelter or retreat.

The larva then enters the ground to a depth of several inches.

Word Value for larvas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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