stage
Webster Dictionary
one of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage
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shadfly
(mayfly, dayfly, shadfly)
Princeton's WordNet
slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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mayfly
(mayfly, dayfly, shadfly)
Princeton's WordNet
slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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dayfly
(mayfly, dayfly, shadfly)
Princeton's WordNet
slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
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veliger
(ˈvi lɪ dʒər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a larval stage of certain mollusks, intermediate between the trochophore and the adult form.
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ascidian
(əˈsɪd i ən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any tunicate of the class Ascidiacea, having in the larval stage a notochord, a characteristic of the embryonic vertebrate.
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urochord
(ˈyʊər əˌkɔrd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a notochord that is chiefly confined to the tail region, present in the larval stage of tunicates.
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metanauplius
Webster Dictionary
a larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages
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axolotl
(ˈæk səˌlɒt l)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of several salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, of Mexico and the western U.S., that remain in the larval stage as sexually mature adults.
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pupal
(pupal)
Princeton's WordNet
of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage
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zoea
Webster Dictionary
a peculiar larval stage of certain decapod Crustacea, especially of crabs and certain Anomura
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prepupal
(prepupal)
Princeton's WordNet
of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages
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parasitoid
(ˈpær ə sɪˌtɔɪd, -saɪ-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an insect that hatches within a host, feeds on it during the larval stage, and becomes free-living when the host dies.
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hemichordate
(ˌhɛm ɪˈkɔr deɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
belonging or pertaining to the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small marine invertebrates, as the acorn worms, that have a vertebratelike hollow nerve cord and an echinodermlike larval stage.
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brachiolaria
Webster Dictionary
a peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia
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cirriped
(ˈsɪr əˌpɛd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any crustacean of the class Cirripedia, comprising the barnacles and certain parasitic forms, typically free-swimming in the larval stage and attached as adults, with bristly food-gathering appendages.
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sporosac
Webster Dictionary
an early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia
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psychosexual development
(psychosexual development)
Princeton's WordNet
(psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
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coenurus
Webster Dictionary
the larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid
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echinococcus
Webster Dictionary
a parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog
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gastraea
Webster Dictionary
a primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula
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siredon
Webster Dictionary
the larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl
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stageplayer
Webster Dictionary
an actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer
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pupa
Webster Dictionary
any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage
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business
Webster Dictionary
the position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal
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megalops
Webster Dictionary
a larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively
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subimago
Webster Dictionary
a stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago
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stage
Webster Dictionary
to exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly
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uredo
Webster Dictionary
one of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement
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prompt box
(prompt box, prompter's box)
Princeton's WordNet
a booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage
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