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Definition of Imaginal

1. a. Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

Definition of Imaginal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the imagination, or to a mental image. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the insect imago. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imaginal

1. pertaining to an imago [adj] - See also: imago

Medical Definition of Imaginal

1. 1. Characterised by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins. 2. Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks, masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvae of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed. Origin: L. Imaginalis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imaginal

Literary usage of Imaginal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"But the tip of the imaginal organ lies fairly within the larval organ, thus indicating by ... Similarly the forming imaginal mouth parts are to be found in ..."

2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"At the end of larval life there are found in the thorax imaginal discs similar to those in the Cari thru larva. They here lie, however (Fig. ..."

3. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"1 shows in sagittal longitudinal section the forming imaginal head parts within the larval head. This section shows particularly well the relation of the ..."

4. The Psychology of Musical Talent by Carl Emil Seashore (1919)
"imaginal TYPES Present view. Since the first discovery of imagery (only about two generations ago) there has been much discussion and experiment for the ..."

5. The World as Imagination (series I) by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1916)
"Freedom is native to a Power imaginal in character —spontaneity is of the essence of the supreme conscious life as we conceive it. ..."

6. A Beginner's Psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1915)
"We have now to ask, first, about the terms in which thought goes on; and we shall find that it may go on in imaginal complexes, in words, and in mental ..."

7. An Elementary Laboratory Course in Psychology by Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Floyd Henry Allport (1916)
"imaginal TYPES (72) (Individual experiment) Method: Each subject Is to solve ... From a survey of the class records, into what imaginal types would you say ..."

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