Imago synonyms

ĭ-mā'gō, ĭ-mä'-

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larva (related)
The definition of a larva is a young animal or insect that will change into something else in adulthood.
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nymph (related)
(Entomology) The young of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis, differing from the adult primarily in size and structural proportions
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pupa (related)
An insect in the nonfeeding stage of development between the larva and adult, during which it typically undergoes a complete transformation within a protective cocoon or hardened case. Only certain kinds of insects, such as moths, butterflies, ants, and beetles, develop as larvae and pupae.
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harmonia (related)
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mundi (related)
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maius (related)
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Imago Sentence Examples

  • In the Cyclorrhapha on the other hand, in which the actual pupa is concealed within the hardened larval skin, the imago escapes through a circular orifice formed by pushing off or through the head end of the puparium.

  • It may bite and devour solid food, while the imago sucks liquids.

  • It may eat roots or refuse, while the imago lives on leaves and flowers.

  • As the life-conditions and feedinghabits of the larva and imago become constantly more divergent, the appearance of the wing-rudiments would be postponed to the pre-imaginal instar, and that instar would become predominantly passive.

  • The mature dragon-fly nymph, for example, makes its way out of the water in which the early stages have been passed and, clinging to some water-plant, undergoes the final ecdysis that the imago may emerge into the air.

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