larvated

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adjective

Masked; concealed.

“larvated eggs”

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivelarvated (not comparable)
  1. not comparableMasked; concealed.

    ... larvated or concealed in an excellent one, even though they are preceded by such slight attacks of petit mal. These larvated attacks of epileptic insanity are apt to recur periodically or quasi-periodically, and they have in[…]

    1895, Landon Carter Gray, A Treatise on nervous and mental diseases, page 635
    1 more example

    […] larvated or masked form, the latent form, the secondary and the associated forms. The Common Form. - Dyspepsia and anæmia often signalize its beginning; herpes zoster, according to some authors, is a precious diagnostic sign of[…]

    1898, The Hahnemannian Monthly, page 594
  2. not comparableContaining a larva or larvae.

    larvated eggs

    2 more examples

    Larvated eggs are passed in the feces and are ingested by fly larvae intermediate hosts.

    2021, Anne M. Zajac, Gary A. Conboy, Susan E. Little, Veterinary Clinical Parasitology, page 136

    Paratenic or incidental hosts that ingest larvated eggs maintain somatic larvae in their tissues ( 3 ) that are infective to predators of the infected paratenic host. .

    2022, Jorge Morales-Montor, Víctor Hugo Del Río-Araiza, Romel Hernandéz-Bello, Parasitic Helminths and Zoonoses: From Basic to Applied Research, page 191

Origin

  1. Latinlarvatus“bewitched”
  2. Englishlarvated

From Latin larvatus (“bewitched”). See larva, larvate.

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