Larval [adjective]
Definition of Larval:
basic, fundamental
Sentence/Example of Larval:
That may be a bad story for the birds but a good example of the separation of diet between the larval and adult stage.
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.
Swammerdam, however, showed the presence under the larval cuticle of the pupal structures.
Unorganised religiosity must be, it seems, the necessary precursor of organised Religion; it is its larval stage.
In some species the worm develops directly from the egg; others pass through a larval stage before reaching maturity.
The ant-lion, of course, was the larval form of a lace-wing fly.