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[Plural] noun- An adult insect produced after metamorphosis. Also: An idealized image of someone formed in childhood.

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  • However, imagos and frozepix of the island were obtained.
  • Amphibiotica: those pseudoneuropterous insects whose larvae are aquatic but whose imagos are aerial; stone-flies; May-flies; dragonflies.
  • It does not advance the question much, neither do I think it likely that even the complete observation he thinks necessary would be of much use; because it may well be that the...
  • Certain specially populous 'broods' of these insects are known and localised, so that the appearance of the imagos in future years can be accurately predicted.
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