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larvaless

larvaless adjective: without larva.

Adjective

larvaless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Without larva.
    • These are my principal arguments against Mr. Onions' theory, and in the light of his discovery it is apparent that, probably, there is no such thing as the purloining of eggs by eggless and larvaless colonies, and that, in the bees of other countries, occasionally - perhaps frequently -...1912, D.S. Van Warmelo, “South African Fertile-Worker Bees and Parthenogenesis”, in The Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa, volume 3, page 788

Origin of larvaless

From larva + -less.

Questions about larvaless

What does larvaless mean?
Larvaless means without larva.
What part of speech is larvaless?
Larvaless is an adjective.

Words near larvaless in the dictionary

  1. larvacides
  2. larvae
  3. larvaesque
  4. larvagenesis
  5. larval
  6. larvaless
  7. larvalike
  8. larvalization
  9. larvally
  10. larvaria
  11. larvarium

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