crustacean-like

Updated: May 14, 2025

We have appropriate names for all the aspects of life in the Insect: we call it Larva in its first or Worm-like period, Chrysalis in its second or Crustacean-like phase of life, and Imago in its third and last condition as Winged Insect.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862