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Hemimetabolic
adj
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 hemimetabolous not-comparable
"Grasshoppers and cockroaches are hemimetabolic."
Adjective
- 1 (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult wordnet
Etymology
From hemi- + metabolic.
See also for "hemimetabolic"
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