Imago Definition

ĭ-māgō, ĭ-mä-
imagines, imago
noun
An insect in its final, adult, reproductive stage, generally having wings.
Webster's New World

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Webster's New World
An often idealized image of a person, usually a parent, formed in childhood and persisting unconsciously into adulthood.
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Other Word Forms of Imago

Noun

Singular:
imago
Plural:
imagines

Origin of Imago

  • Latin imāgō imāgin- image aim- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin imāgō.

    From Wiktionary

Imago Sentence Examples

  • It may bite and devour solid food, while the imago sucks liquids.

  • In the Cyclorrhapha on the other hand, in which the actual pupa is concealed within the hardened larval skin, the imago escapes through a circular orifice formed by pushing off or through the head end of the puparium.

  • As the life-conditions and feedinghabits of the larva and imago become constantly more divergent, the appearance of the wing-rudiments would be postponed to the pre-imaginal instar, and that instar would become predominantly passive.

  • The mature dragon-fly nymph, for example, makes its way out of the water in which the early stages have been passed and, clinging to some water-plant, undergoes the final ecdysis that the imago may emerge into the air.

  • Only a brief reference can be made here to the fascinating subject of the life-relations of the larva, nymph and pupa, as compared with those of the imago.

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Words Starting With

IIMIMA

Words Ending With

OGOAGO

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Words Starting With I and Ending With O

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