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larvate

larvate adjective: concealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.

Adjective

larvate (not comparable)

  1. Concealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.
    • larvate epilepsy
    • There is much talk about "larvate" forms of malaria - i. e., forms where the organism cannot be found; many of these are undoubtedly not cases of malaria at all, and many are not sufficiently studied1898, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 165

Verb

larvate (third-person singular simple present larvates, present participle larvating, simple past and past participle larvated)

  1. To develop into larvae.
    • Thus, approximately 20.0 % of eggs larvated but failed to hatch. Failure of the eggs to develop into infective larvae in E. coli or fecal cultures at 5 C. agrees generally with the reports of […]1967, American Journal of Veterinary Research
    • These common roundworms are passed as eggs in feces. The eggs larvate and become infectious after 1 to 3 weeks. The infectious eggs can survive in the environment for months and are the primary source of human infection.2016 December 19, Stephen J. Ettinger, Edward C. Feldman, Etienne Cote, Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine - eBook: Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine - eBook, Elsevier Health Sciences...

larvate meaning in Tamil

larvate in Tamil

அறிகுறித் தோன்றா நோய், மறைந்த நிலை, வெளிப்படா நோய்

Examples of larvate in a sentence

  • Masked or larvate malaria, like pernicious malaria, needs complete overhauling.1909, William Heiskell Deaderick, A Practical Study of Malaria, page 232:
  • The female's eggs are passed in the feces and larvate within 9–10 days when temperatures are between 77 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit .2023 March 9, Linda P. Case, The Dog: Its Behavior, Nutrition, and Health, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 266:

Forms of larvate

third-person singular presentlarvates
present participlelarvating
past participlelarvated
pastlarvated

Origin of larvate

First attested in 1846; borrowed from Latin larvātus, from larva (“a mask”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about larvate

What does larvate mean?
Larvate means concealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.
What is larvate in Tamil?
Larvate in Tamil is அறிகுறித் தோன்றா நோய், மறைந்த நிலை, வெளிப்படா நோய். See Larvate meaning in Tamil.
How do you use larvate in a sentence?
Masked or larvate malaria, like pernicious malaria, needs complete overhauling.
What part of speech is larvate?
Larvate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near larvate in the dictionary

  1. larvalization
  2. larvally
  3. larvaria
  4. larvarium
  5. larvas
  6. larvate
  7. larvated
  8. larvates
  9. larvating
  10. larve
  11. larves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: larvate (page history and authors); larvate (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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