Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun larva

1 sense of larva

Sense 1
larva -- (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)
       => animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna -- (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)