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HETEROMETABOLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heterometaboly mean?
• HETEROMETABOLY (noun)
The noun HETEROMETABOLY has 1 sense:
1. development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity
Familiarity information: HETEROMETABOLY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
heterometabolism; heterometaboly
Hypernyms ("heterometaboly" is a kind of...):
metabolism; metamorphosis (the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals)
Derivation:
heterometabolic ((of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage)
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