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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

/ ɪˈmædʒɪnəl /

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 imāgin-, stem of imāgō imago + -al 1
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Example Sentences

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

From Slate

“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.”

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.”

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

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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