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Definition: Imaginal disks
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. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to an imago.
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Imaginal disks (Zo["o]l.), 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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