imaginal disks

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imaginal disks - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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