gamine vs larva

gamine

noun
  • A mischievous, playful, elfish, pert girl or young woman. 

  • A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl. 

adj
  • Having a boyish, mischievous charm; elfish, typically with short hair. 

larva

noun
  • A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. 

  • A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance. 

  • An animal in the aforementioned stage. 

  • 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. 

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