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Hemimetabolic

Hemimetabolic Meaning & Definition
Hemimetabolic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hemimetabolic?

[adj] (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hemimetabolic: hemimetabolous | hemimetamorphic | hemimetamorphous | metamorphic

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Hemimetabolic In Webster's Dictionary

\Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larv[ae] differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

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