'Imaginal' definitions:

Definition of 'Imaginal'

From: GCIDE
  • Imaginal \Im*ag"i*nal\, a. [L. imaginalis.]
  • 1. Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to an imago. [1913 Webster]
  • Imaginal disks (Zool.), 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. [1913 Webster]