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Webster 1913 Edition


Imaginal

Im-ag′i-nal

,
Adj.
[L.
imaginalis
.]
1.
Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.
2.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to an imago.
Imaginal disks
(Zool.)
,
masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.