Hemimetabolic
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Characterized by hemimetaboly; pertaining to hemimetaboly, or to the
Hemimetabola;
hemimetamorphic; homomorphic.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
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adjective.
Having an
incomplete
metamorphosis
, the
larvae
differing from the
adults
chiefly in lacking
wings
.
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adjective.
(of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult
Equivalent
metamorphic