larvate adjective 1verb 1forms 3 adjective1 •Concealed; obscure; being a masked or doubtful case of disease.There is much talk about "larvate" forms of malaria - i. e., forms where the organism cannot be found; many of these are undoubtedly not cases of malaria at all, and many are not sufficiently studied — 1898 verb1 •To develop into larvae.Thus, approximately 20.0 % of eggs larvated but failed to hatch. Failure of the eggs to develop into infective larvae in E. coli or fecal cultures at 5 C. agrees generally with the reports of […] — 1967 formslarvated · larvating · larvates