英语词汇larva的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	larva
词源	larva. One meaning of larva in Latin is “a mask.” Linnaeus first used the term as the scientific (yet poetic) term for a cater- pillar because, as one writer puts it, “such a creature wears a disguise, the future insect is not recognizable in the present grub, its form a ‘mask’ which will one day be cast off.” See alsopupa.
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