hemimetabolic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
  1. (Zoöl.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

Webster 1913