Definitions for "Imaginal disc"
A single-layered pouch of undifferentiated cells in insect larval stages that gives rise to adult structures such as the wings, legs, antennae and eyes.
In insect larvae, groups of cells that develop into specific adult organs.
a larval tissue that gives rise to an adult structure in organisms such as Drosophila
a rigidly determined primordium, which allows the construction of fate maps