1. Plural of imago; the final, fully developed adult stage of an insect after metamorphosis.
Usage: biology; entomology
2. In psychology, idealized mental images of people, especially parents, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously in adulthood.
Usage: psychology; psychoanalysis

Examples

• The imagos of butterflies emerge from their chrysalises with wet, folded wings.
• Dragonfly imagos are skilled aerial hunters that can catch prey in mid-flight.
• The entomologist studied how imagos differ from their larval forms.
• In Jungian psychology, imagos represent unconscious projections we place on others.
• Many insects spend only a brief time as imagos before reproducing.