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larval

/lahr-vuhl/US // ˈlɑr vəl //

幼虫,幼虫期,幼年时期,幼体

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
    • : Also lar·vate [lahr-veyt]. /ˈlɑr veɪt/. masked; not clearly defined.

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Examples

  • With no tetracycline present in the box, the GM females are expected to die in early larval stages.

  • Underwater photos taken at night — when larval fishes migrate to within 200 meters of the ocean surface — reveal colors, body structures and behaviors that could never be seen in preserved specimens.

  • Scientists have mistakenly given larval fishes new scientific names, not recognizing them as early life stages of known species.

  • Examining those same fishes back in the lab lets ichthyologists match the photographed larval fishes to known species, researchers report March 30 in Ichthyology & Herpetology.

  • Now, a partnership between scientists and scuba divers is giving researchers fresh perspectives on the secrets of larval fishes.

  • A record would spend years in larval form as an acetate, the big waxy master from which copies were made.

  • Except perhaps an injunction to my fellow emergent adults: remember your larval years!

  • The larval stage is passed in the muscles of various animals, especially cattle, where it lies encysted (cysticercus stage).

  • The length of the larval stage varies from fifteen to twenty-five days with an average of twenty days.

  • The people, largely farmers, become infected with a larval stage of the hookworm, which develops in moist earth.

  • Oryctes, Cetoniae and Anoxiae in the larval state: here then is the prey of the three Scoliae whose habits we know.

  • A larval specimen with small gills has a snout-vent length of 72 mm.