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animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna (noun) - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

aphid lion, aphis lion (noun) - carnivorous larva of lacewing flies
ascidian tadpole (noun) - free-swimming larva of ascidians
bladder worm (noun) - encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm
bot (noun) - botfly larva
caseworm (noun) - insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body

caterpillar (noun) - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
cercaria (noun) - tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm
doodlebug, ant lion, antlion (noun) - the larva of any of several insects
grub (noun) - a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
hellgrammiate, dobson (noun) - large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly
leptocephalus (noun) - slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes
mealworm (noun) - the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae
nymph (noun) - a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)
strawworm, jointworm (noun) - larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains
tadpole, polliwog, pollywog (noun) - a larval frog or toad
wiggler, wriggler (noun) - larva of a mosquito
wireworm (noun) - wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles