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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
Noun
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Sacramento County health inspectors closed four restaurants this week, including Carmichael’s Royal Cuisine, where a live nymph cockroach was found crawling on the salt and pepper shakers.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
16 May 2026
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August is when the season begins to ebb, with fewer nymphs around and eggs hatching larvae that are largely free of diseases.—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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“Larva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/larva. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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