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say it: LAHR-vuhl
larval is an adjective meaning "immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage". It carries 2 recorded senses.
immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage
“larval societies”
“larval crayfishes”
“the larval stage”
relating to or typical of a larva
“the larval eye”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for larval come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.