hemimetabolic Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult
hemimetamorphous; hemimetabolous; hemimetamorphic.
WordNet
Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic adjective
Definitions
(Zoöl.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.