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imagoes

imagoes is the plural of imago.

Meaning of imago

Noun

imago (plural imagines or imagos or imagoes)

  1. The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.
    • ‘But still,’ he said to himself, drawing the metamorphoses of a red admiral, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and imago on his pad, ‘what shall I say to him when we meet?’1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
  2. An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.

Questions about imagoes

What is imagoes the plural of?
Imagoes is the plural of imago.

Words near imagoes in the dictionary

  1. imago
  2. imago clipeata
  3. imago Dei
  4. imagocidal
  5. imagocide
  6. imagoes
  7. imagological
  8. imagologies
  9. imagology
  10. imagos
  11. imagotherapy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imagoes (page history and authors); imago (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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