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Recent Examples of larva
Live birth, or skipping the egg-laying and larva stage, is extremely rare in amphibians.
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
The zooids start as a single larva floating in the water among the plankton.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
The parasite, a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly, attacks warm-blooded animals, including humans.
—Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
The parasitic flies produce larva that feed on living tissue, typically that of animals and livestock.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
The zooids start as a single larva floating in the water among the plankton.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
The parasite, a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly, attacks warm-blooded animals, including humans.
—Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
The parasitic flies produce larva that feed on living tissue, typically that of animals and livestock.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for larva
nymph
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The 29-year-old actress is on the cover of Elle's Summer 2026 The Epic Issue, alongside her female costars Anne Hathaway (Odysseus' wife Penelope), Lupita Nyong'o (playing Helen of Troy, as well as the character's twin sister Clytemnestra), and Charlize Theron (the nymph Calypso).—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
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Everything feels more whimsical, more fairy-like, more nymph-coded, as if fashion itself is trying to mirror the romance of the natural world.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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“Larva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larva. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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