imago

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One feature in which the larva often agrees with the imago is the possession on the terminal abdominal segment of a pair of long jointed cerci, and in many genera a median jointed tail-process (see fig. 9) is also present, in some cases both in the larva and the imago, in others in the larva during its later stages only.

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  1. noun An insect in its sexually mature adult stage after metamorphosis.
  2. noun Psychology An often idealized image of a person, usually a parent, formed in childhood and persisting unconsciously into adulthood.

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  • And the few adults who claim to have really enjoyed their adolescence tend to emit a sweetness that kind of sucks, an imago-like pretense that they actively welcome being haunted from within; that the caul-encumbered inner child, which had somehow failed to pass the baton, was somehow still their friend . —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#213
  • Chironomid Fly Larva - The metamorphic lifecycle of a chironomid consists of several phases, including egg, larval, pupal, imago, and flying adult stages.
  • Many of these environments agent bodhi clustering data-mining distributed-data-mining distributed-learning f-trade imago issues jam p2p padma papyrus service-discovery service-oriented survey web-mining CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Dei Gratia Magnć Britannić, Francić et Hibernić Regi, Fidei Defensori, &c Serenissime Rex Prodeat jam sub tuis auspiciis illa patris tui gloriosissimi imago, illa quâ magis ad Dei similitudinem, quŕm quŕ Rex aut homo accedit. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
  • The nymph climbs out of the water by ascending some aquatic plant, and awaits the change so graphically sketched by Tennyson A hidden impulse rent the veil Of his old husk, from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail From head to tail,' for the nymph-cuticle splits lengthwise down the back, and the head and thorax of the imago are freed from it (fig. 8 a_), then the legs clasp the empty cuticle, and the abdomen is drawn out (fig. 8 b, c_). —  The Life-Story of Insects
 

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  1. Latin imāgō, imāgin-, image; see aim- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin use of Latin imago, an image, likeness: see image.
 

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