Word Meanings - HORSEWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The larva of a botfly.

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• BOTFLY
  A dipterous insect of the family (Estridæ, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• LARVA
  Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in
• LARVATE
  Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.
• LARVATED
  Masked; clothed as with a mask.
• LARVALIA
  An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See Appendicularia.
• LOEVEN'S LARVA
  The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.