larva vs animate being

larva and animate being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
larva	Yes	No	No	No
animate being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, animate being is a hypernym of larva; that is, animate being is a word with a broader meaning than larva:

larva: the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
animate being: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of larva include animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna.

larva (noun)	animate being (noun)
the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement