English Dictionary

larva

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɑː.və/

名詞

比喩的用法

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.

日本語の意味

卵から孵化した後の初期の成長段階。昆虫の場合、羽がなく毛虫やウジ虫のような形態であり、両生類の場合は足がなく魚のように見える段階

While examining the damp log, I discovered a tiny larva inching toward a patch of moss.

湿った倒木を調べていると、苔の一角に向かって這っている小さな幼虫を見つけた。

意味（1）

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.

The habits of the second nymphal stage are likewise similar to those of the larva stage.

意味（2）

An animal in the aforementioned stage.

The young larva bores into the tissue of a tobacco leaf, usually near the place where it has emerged from the egg, in cases where the egg was laid on a leaf, and mines into the leaf.

意味（3）

A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.

In water of 5-6° C, herring hatch in about 22 days, at 11-12° C in 8–10 days. The newly hatched larva is about 6–8 mm long and at first depends on the food reserves of the yolk-sac.

意味（4）

(figuratively) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.

In the fourteenth we find, but still in Latin, a quasi-historical drama, in the larva stage of monologue recitation, founded on a subject from the national annals—that of Ezzelino, tyrant-duke of Padua.

larvas （ plural ）

larvae （ plural ）

larvæ （ plural ）