What is the difference between grub and larva?
grub | larva |
(countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
(uncountable, slang) Food.
(obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up .
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(slang) To supply with food.
An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
An animal in the aforementioned stage.
A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
Larva is a synonym of grub.
As nouns the difference between grub and larva
is that grub is an immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva while larva is an early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.As a verb grub
is to scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.grub
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(wikipedia grub)Noun
- (Carew)
Synonyms
* (immature insect): larva * : nosh, tuckerDerived terms
* grubby * witchetty grubVerb
(grubb)- to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
- They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
- (Charles Dickens)