larval

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹvəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vəl

larval

1. Of or relating to larvae:
   1. Being a larva.
   2. Characteristic of larvae.
   3. Having the form or shape of a larva.
2. (pathology) Undeveloped, latent.
3. (by extension) Immature, childlike.
   • 2023 July 12 (last accessed), “Wheel Wars”, in The Jargon File‎^[1]:

     A period in larval stage during which student hackers hassle each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other's files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users.

• arvall, vallar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [lərˈbal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [lərˈval]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [laɾˈval]

larval m or f (masculine and feminine plural larvals)

1. larval

   Synonym: larvari

• larva

• “larval”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “larval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “larval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “larval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /laɾˈbal/ [laɾˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: lar‧val

larval m or f (masculine and feminine plural larvales)

1. larval

   Synonym: larvario

• “larval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024