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“the idea being that an insect in its grub stage is merely a ghost of its future self and bears no resemblance to its future form”
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“the idea being that an insect in its grub stage is merely a ghost of its future self and bears no resemblance to its future form”
(Latin: insect in its grub stage; from Latin larva, "mask" and by extension, "ghost", the idea being that an insect in its grub stage is merely a ghost of its future self and bears no resemblance to its future form)