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imaginal

[ ih-mey-guh-nl, ih-mah- ]

adjective

Entomology.
  1. of, relating to, or having the form of an imago.


imaginal

/ ɪˈæɪə /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling an imago
  2. of or relating to an image
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of imaginal1

1875–80; < New Latin 岵-, stem of 岵ō imago + -al 1
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Example Sentences

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All that was now dissolving, back into imaginal discs of emotion.

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“Whether to downplay it or try to defend it in some way. He identified as gay, but I never knew him to have a sexual partner, or an actual sex life. His sexual practices were what I call Whitmanesque, imaginal only.”

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As roots reggae’s foremost producer, Perry, wrote essayist and musician David Toop, built “an imaginal chamber over which presided the electronic wizard, evangelist, gossip columnist and Dr. Frankenstein.”

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Within this living soup are the imaginal cells that will catalyse its transformation into winged maturity.

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May the best among us, the most visionary, the most inclusive, be the imaginal cells – for now we are in the soup.

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