It's on its second instar.
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Instar
//ˈɪnstɑɹ//
Synonyms for "instar" (4 found)
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Translations
14 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 蛻期 /蜕期 noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
- 蛻變期 /蜕变期 noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
- 齡 /龄 noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
Finnish
2 entries- kehitysvaihe noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
- kehitysvaihe noun (by extension: development stage)
French
1 entries- stade noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
German
4 entries- Entwicklungsstadium noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
- Entwicklungsstadium noun (by extension: development stage)
- Larve noun (arthropod at a specified one of these stages)
- Larvenstadium noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
Greek
1 entries- στάδιο noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
Japanese
1 entries- 齢 noun (by extension: development stage)
Russian
1 entries- во́зраст noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
Spanish
1 entries- estadio noun (stage in the development of arthropods)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]
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We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.
Source: wiktionary
California spirituality is a late instar of America’s utopian impulse, and corporate meritocracy derives from the Whig dream of the self-made man that entranced young Abraham Lincoln.
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