Crossword-Solution: IMAGINAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Imaginal | a. | Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins. |
| Imaginal | a. | Of or pertaining to an imago. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “IMAGINAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of mental conceptions | 1 answer |
| Idealistic | 26 answers |
| Imaginative | 51 answers |
| conceivable | 58 answers |
| Ideal | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with IMAGINAL (5)
The sub-imaginal instar of the may-fly furnishes also a noteworthy fact for comparison with other insect histories.
Not the wings only, but other structures of the imago, varying in extent in different orders, are formed from the imaginal discs.
After the third moult these imaginal discs grow rapidly and the proximal portion of each, destined to develop into the thigh and shin of the butterfly's leg, sinks into a depression at the side of the thorax, while the tip of the shin and the five-segmented foot project into the cavity of the larval leg.
Hence we understand that the amputation of the latter by the old naturalists truncated only and did not destroy the imaginal limb.
Front region of Maggot of Blow-fly (_Calliphora_) showing diagrammatically the imaginal discs, which are shaded.
Quotes with IMAGINAL (3)
Caterpillars chew their way through ecosystems leaving a path of destruction as they get fatter and fatter. When they finally fall asleep and a chrysalis forms around them, tiny new imaginal cells, as biologists call them, begin to take form within their bodies. The caterpillar’s immune system fights these new cells as though they were foreign intruders, and only when they crop up in greater numbers and link themselves together are they strong enough to survive. Then the cate…
Why should anything exist at all, you might ask? Existence didn't just spring out of nothing whatsoever. Even if there was a time of No-Thingness, then there must have been an inherent or precursory realm of possibility; a possibility that something -- anything -- such as the imaginal, might exist. Why are we here at all? Because this was a possibility, and we are the living proof that there must have been such a possibility. So, you might say that existence, in one form or a…
My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1975).