11 examples of larval in sentences
But then, on careful consideration of the facts, the objection arises that the stalk, calyx, and arms of the palaeozoic Crinoid are exceedingly different from the corresponding organs of a larval Comatula; and it might with perfect justice be argued that Actinocrinus and Eucalyptocrinus, for example, depart to the full as widely, in one direction, from the stalked embryo of Comatula, as Comatula itself does in the other.
"I am alluding to your larval constitution as Caterpillars," returned the Philosopher.
Others will show an intense curiosity spontaneously, a curiosity which perhaps may be explained as a larval precocity, dependent upon the minimum of sex hormone production by the gonads.
The stomach is thick-walled, like a gizzard; the stomachs of those we shot contained adult and larval ants, chiefly termites, together with plenty of black mould and fragments of leaves, both green and dry.
A rather large insect larvaat least we judged it to be a larval form, but we were none of us entomologistsbore a resemblance to a partially curled dry leaf which was fairly startling.
August Mencken & Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. (E); 9Feb67; R404020. Larval stage of a bookworm.
August Mencken & Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. (E); 9Feb67; R404020. Larval stage of a bookworm.
It possesses in its larval stage a notochord, the delicate structure which precedes the formation of a backbone, extending along the upper part of the body below the spinal cord.
In its next larval stage it has six pairs of swimming feet, two compound eyes, and two antennae or feelers, and still lives an independent free-swimming life.
From the eggs hatch active little larval "scale bugs," with eyes and feelers, and six legs.
He found pasture neither among them nor among those writers who are peculiarly the delight of the spuriously literate: Sallust, who is less colorless than the others; sentimental and pompous Titus Livius; turgid and lurid Seneca; watery and larval Suetonius; Tacitus who, in his studied conciseness, is the keenest, most wiry and muscular of them all.
