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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
imago /ɪˈmeɪgəʊ/

▶noun (pl. imagos or imagines /ɪˈmeɪdʒɪniːz/)

1 Entomology the final and fully developed adult stage of an insect.

2 Psychoanalysis an unconscious idealized mental image of someone, which influences a person's behaviour.

– origin C18: mod. L. use of L. imago ‘image’.

'imago' also found in these Oxford entries:

image - imaginal - imaginary - imagination - imagine - imagines - imitate

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